Anthropology Department Colloquium
"History, Anthropology, & Southeast Asia" by Dr. Eric C. Thompson, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
Event Details
Date
Monday, March 10, 2025
Time
1:30-3 p.m.
Location
Description
In this talk, the author discusses the conceptual underpinnings of his recent book The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2024). The book is a historical-anthropological account of the region structured both chronologically and thematically. The chapters cover a series of themes which have created the region as we know it today: migration and settlement, trade and economics, state building (and state avoidance), adoption of popular religions, kinship and gender, social identities, contested...
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-2866 (voice only) or email anthroinfo@mailplus.wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.