...a borderland–frontier in a state of flux, where social and environmental trajectories are diverse, dynamic, and consequential...
Senam rudat: performing arts and participation in Pasir Putih, North Lombok
Adapting traditional dance for healthy community building with local women; but are gender boundaries reinforced or deconstructed?
Indigenous Papuan women and the struggle for land
Amid the chaotic contestation over natural resources in Papua, it is the indigenous women who are constantly pushed out of the arena.
Other ways of remembering
Do local peoples—hunter-gatherer, farmers, and others who are “missing” from historical records—remember in the same way? In subjecting memories to maps, we alter the knowledge...
Not the Emperor’s, not the King’s, but the Straits Chinese
Ann Ang discusses the historical context, origins and identity of the Straits Chinese.
Perspectives on the Past at New Mandala
Welcoming the University of Sydney's Southeast Asian history bloggers to New Mandala.