This workshop, which took place at the University of Virginia on January 8-11, 2020, explores similarities and differences evident in cosmological and social structures across East Asia (principally China), Southeast Asia into Eastern Indonesia, Melanesia and Polynesia.
Principal workshop personnel are anthropologists (Barnes, Damon, Digim’Rina, Küchler, , Ma, Wang, Were, and Zhang[F]), some with archaeological backgrounds (Rowlands), classical students of Chinese culture (Dorofeeva-Litchmann) and historians (Dean, Love and Zhang[EC]).
The workshop’s historical contours follow the Austronesian expansion out of southeastern China, now Fujian Province, over the last 6000 years. However, the geometrical forms that underlie the living practices in this area are not just historical issues or relics: they form fundamental patters for social life.
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