Charu from A Time To Reflect (formerly "Peek into my mind") has put online beautiful and colorful pictures from Rajastan and other travels in India. She writes:
"Rajasthan must be the most vibrant and colourful place in India, if not the world. And th… more »
Category: "Asia"
Asia Times
BANGKOK - Though southern Thailand's ethnic-Malay Muslims are drawing closer together in the face of heavy-handed government tactics to quash a simmering separatist insurgency, religion is splitting them as Islamic fundamentalists, or refor… more »
Los Angeles Times / Yahoo
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — School principal Baast chose the name "Nomad" in keeping with his wandering spirit. Defense Minister Gurragchaa — the only Mongolian to venture into space — settled on "Cosmos." And anthropology student… more »
The University of Chicago Press
An interview with anthropologist Jonah Blank, author of Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. The Daudi Bohras are a unique denomination of Indian Muslims, with a worldwide population num… more »
Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba (Japan), Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
What is your image of Japan? A technologically hip nation of cyber-savvy samurai? A land where culture can be both cute and conformist? In Japanese Cyber… more »
The Straits Times Asia
MADAM Yang Huanyi, 98, died in a remote part of China's Hunan province last month. There was nothing unusual about her death, except that she was the last person on Earth who had mastered a secret writing system used only by wom… more »
Tibet Information Network has published a huge collection of pictures about different topics like Culture and Society, Education, Environment and Religion >> continue
(via tibet.ethno.info) more »
Danny Yee's Book Reviews
Originally published in 1979, The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan is a study of the peoples of the Wakhan Corridor, the long, narrow portion of Afghanistan that reaches out to touch China. This 2002 edition adds a foreword an… more »
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