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- General
- IIAS Director Wim Stokhof reports on a successful ICAS
2, having resulted in a newly established permanent
ICAS Secretariat to be administered by the IIAS
The new Asia-Europe Museum Network is a leap forward in sharing art collections. After all 'art is not merely European or Asian. Art is the world's heritage'... writes Delfin Colomé.
- Pop
Music in Asia
Pop music is no longer exclusively Western. Asian pop has left the eighties behind, copying the West and a 'star' system of singers have been swapped for more variety of mainstream and underground music as well as of musical subcultures. Never mind the music, here's a social phenomenon that deserves scholarly attention. According Keith Howard, guest editor for the 'Pop Music in Asia' theme, popular culture and popular music show us how the world is changing.
- Regions
- Central Asia
- Insignificant in sheer numbers, the Tsaatan, or Reindeer people, may hold important keys to understanding Mongolian culture and traditions at large. Zandan Enebish contends that more research on the severely threatened Tsaatan lifestyle, language, and customs are indispensable to this end
- South Asia
- Gerda Theuns-de Boer
asks herself where the urge to depict pigs and boars originates and
inquires into the Indian symbols and myths connected with these animals
and how they came to be shaped into icons.
The Indian cultural past is present in everyday life, but the Indian author is very much disconnected from this tradition. In his interview with Nirmal Varma, Thomas de Bruijn portrays him as 'A Hindi Author on the Shores of Modernity'
- Southeast Asia
- What is the best scenario for the economic development
of East Timor and how can the international arena contribute to the
process of reconstruction? Jacqueline Vel reports on the Amsterdam seminar:
'East Timor: Building a New Nation State'
where Dr José Ramos-Horta delivered the opening speech..
The new publication Batavia in 19th-Century Photographs documents the beginnings of a modern city and that of topographical photography in the Netherlands East Indies, writes Doris Jedamski
- East Asia
- When North Korean media reported the discovery of the tomb of Tan'gun, the State's regime quickly proved itself the custodians of the tomb and relics in order to strengthen its claim as the rightful heirs to Tan'gun, purported to be the first ruler of the Korean people
- Asian Arts
- Due to the relative inaccessibility of the region, Ladakh had rarely seen visits from Western artists when Robert Powell arrived in 1975. His watercolours and pencil and ink drawings document the region's architecture that he encountered during his twenty-five year exploration of the Himalayas.