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This volume seeks to foreground a borderless history and geography
of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be
maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and
dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the
cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian
Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical
period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of
macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary
divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) high cultures (e.g.
Sanskritic, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and local or indigenous
cultures, this multidisciplinary volume explores the metaphor of
Monsoon Asia as a vast geo-environmental area inhabited by speakers
of numerous language phyla, which for millennia has formed an
integrated system of littorals where crops, goods, ideas,
cosmologies, and ritual practices circulated on the sea-routes
governed by the seasonal monsoon winds. The collective body of work
presented in the volume describes Monsoon Asia as an ideal theatre
for circulatory dynamics of cultural transfer, interaction,
acceptance, selection, and avoidance, and argues that, despite the
rich ethnic, linguistic and sociocultural diversity, a shared
pattern of values, norms, and cultural models is discernible
throughout the region.
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