Between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea
Between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. Their diet consisted mainly of rice and fish. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the…
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Between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea
The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. Their diet consisted mainly of rice and fish. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabitants built wooden houses on poles whether they lived in flooded coastal plains or in the highlands.
They chewed betel and engaged in pastimes such as cockfighting and sepak takraw. They believed in common folk deities such as the rice-spirit. How did such features come to spread across an area of 4.5 million square kilometres?
Southeast Asia - for all its diversity of ethnicity, language, religion - can best be understood as a region that has been knit together by a network of trade routes over land and sea. This revelatory new book traces the diffusion of cultures across Southeast Asia from the last few centuries BCE, by looking at trade goods such as Indian beads, Vietnamese Dongson drums, Chinese ceramics, and spices from the
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