Imagining Asia(s) : : Networks, Actors, Sites /

Imagining Asia(s) : : Networks, Actors, Sites / / ed. by Andrea Acri, Sraman Mukherjee, Murari K. Jha, Kashshaf Ghani.

As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. Recent scholarship has highlighted how the seemingly self-contained regional configurations of West and Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia carved by the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Acri, Andrea,
Broilo, Federica A.,
Ghani, Kashshaf,
Jha, Murari K.,
Kooria, Mahmood,
Liem, Vu Duc,
Mukherjee, Sraman,
Noor, Farish A.,
Rosa, Fernando,
Sabharwal, Gopa,
Sharma, Anjana,
Sinclair, Iain,
Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin,
HerausgeberIn:
Acri, Andrea,
Ghani, Kashshaf,
Jha, Murari K.,
Mukherjee, Sraman,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Conceptualizing the Region: Past and Present
  • 1. Locating Asia, Arresting Asia: Grappling with "The Epistemology that Kills"
  • 2. Imagining "Maritime Asia"
  • 3. In Search of an Asian Vision: The Asian Relations Conference of 1947
  • Part II. Conceptualizing Asia through the Prism of Europe
  • 4. In Pursuit of Knowledge from Asia: François Valentijn on the Hindu Social Divisions in the Coromandel Region, c. Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century
  • 5. British Romantic Poetics and the Idea of Asia
  • Part III. Networks of Knowledge Across the Indian Ocean
  • 6. An Indian Ocean Ribāṭ: War and Religion in Sixteenth-Century Ponnāni, Malabar Coast
  • 7. Travelling Spirits: Revisiting Melaka's Keramat from the Indian Ocean
  • Part IV. Histories and Geographies of Pilgrimage in Asia
  • 8. Transmissions, Translations, Reconstitutions: Revisiting Geographies of Buddha Relics in the Southern Asian Worlds
  • 9. The Politics of Pilgrimage: Reception of Hajj among South Asian Muslims
  • Part V: Trans-Local Dynamics and Intra-Asian Connections across Space and Time
  • 10. Sanskritic Buddhism as an Asian Universalism
  • 11. Interconnectedness and Mobility in the Middle Ages/Nowadays: From Baghdad to Chang'an and from Istanbul to Tokyo
  • 12. Connecting Networks and Orienting Space: Relocating Nguyen Cochinchina between East and Southeast Asia in the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 13. The Highlands of West Sumatra and their Maritime Trading Connections
  • INDEX

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