ANTH 3220 Ethnology of Insular Southeast Asia

ANTH 3220 Ethnology of Insular Southeast Asia
Ethnology of Insular Southeast Asia
Peoples and cultures of Island or Maritime Southeast Asia, from the Andaman Islands in the west to the Bismarck Archipelago in the east. Biogeographic distinctions between Indo and Austro SE Asia; evolutionary implications for people and fauna. Paleolithic, Neolithic, bronze, and iron ages from 40 kya to 1st millennium CE. Early developments in Austro-Asiatic and Austronesian languages. Commercial contacts with ancient Rome, India, China. Impacts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. Prehistoric and early colonial entrepôts. Colonial development of ethnicities associated with Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Tamil, Aslian, Kmer, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Identity issues, ethnohistory and ethnobiology  of Aslian (Orang Asli) peoples to the present.
credit hours: 3