Thursday, November 29, 2012

Paiwan Knives Bronze Handles and Igorot Hand Drums: Two Relict Artifacts from the Asia-Pacific Bronze Age

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Abstract In 2008 in ethnology museum of Academia Sinica in Taipei (Taiwan) first time I saw knives bronze handles, which are consid...

Placing Taiwan on the Map of Titanic (‘Megalithic’) Cultures in Eurasia-Pacific Area

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Abstract Keywords: worshipping of a tomb, megalithic culture , Neolithic cultural unity, Eurasia-Pacific area. In 2008 I visited...

Objective Phenomena with Mythological Significance in Corpora Linguistics of Eurasia-Pacific Area

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Abstract A current exploratory research intends to clarify whether images of particular objects in folklore, mythology, cults, supers...

Case Studies of Ethnic Migrations Processes in Southeast Asia

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Abstract The paper discusses two issues: (1) ethnic composition of the first ‘Chinese’ immigrants to Taiwan and (2) Yunnan province et...

External Political Reasons for Tibeto-Burmese Speakers’ Migrations to Burma: A Case Study of the Nanzhao kingdom (737-902 AC)

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Abstract Key words : Yunnan, Tibetan Empire, Tang Dynasty, political culture, social institutions For my main research of common cu...

Muslim Filipinos’ Image Transformations: From Moro Pirates’ to ‘Abu Sayyaf Terrorists’

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Abstract After September 11, 2001, Islam and terrorism issues became the subjects of the main importance in arena of international aff...

Borneo: Variations of Cultural Homogenization

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Abstract Keywords: globalization, the Bumiputera, Islamization, transmigration programs, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei. During the per...