DHDMSEA
Dynamics of Human Diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia
An international and interdisciplinary workshop.
Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jan 7-10, 2009.
Organizers: Nick Enfield and Joyce White
With the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation
This will be a “four fields” meeting, bringing together linguists, social/cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, and physical/biological anthropologists, in order to pose the general questions: What is the nature of human diversity in mainland Southeast Asia, and how did it come to be this way? In order to constrain the area of focus, and try to ensure cross-talk between the disciplines, we aim to restrict attention spatially to mainland SE Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Malay Peninsula) and temporally to the Holocene (the last 11,000 years). There are exciting new developments in all sub-fields of anthropology in this area, and we feel that the time is right for scholars of different disciplines to get together and update each other on the states of their respective arts, and to identify new syntheses and new agendas for interdisciplinary research. We emphasize discussion rather than lecture-style presentation, and we ask for papers to be written and circulated in advance.
Papers for precirculation (in no particular order):
A. Essential reading, to be presented at the meeting:
- Sian E. Halcrow, N. Tayles, and K. Cox “Human Diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia: the contribution of bioarchaeology”
- Laurent Sagart “The Austroasiatics: East to West or West to East?”
- N. J. Enfield “Linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia”
- Michael Dunn, Niclas Burenhult, Nicole Kruspe, Neele Becker, Sylvia Tufvesson “A quantitative analysis of Aslian linguistic prehistory”
- Korakot Boonlop and Sureeratana Bubpha “Prehistoric People from Ban Chiang, NE Thailand: A Physical Anthropology perspective on a Southeast Asian agrarian population”
- Joyce White “Diversity in mainland Southeast Asia“
- Alan Fix “Origins of Genetic Diversity among Malaysian Orang Asli”
- Roger Blench “Reconstructing the Southeast Asian Past: Archaeology, Language, Genetics and Material Culture”
- Hirofumi Matsumura and Yamagata Mariko “Population History of Mainland Southeast Asia”
- Patcharee Lertrit et al “Genetic History of Southeast Asian Populations”
- Hjorleifur Jonsson “Ethnicity, the Uplands, and a Region Towards a Peoples’ History of Mainland Southeast Asia”
- Gerard Diffloth “The Austroasiatic Homeland? Not in China“
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B. Background reading, mostly by authors who will be participating
-Michael J. Kovach, Megan T. Sweeney and Susan R. McCouch “New insights into the history of rice domestication”
- Sian Halcrow et al “Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia” (Note: uncorrected proof)
- Pedro Soares et al “Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia”
- Catherine Hill et al 2006 “Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians” (supplement)
- Catherine Hill et al 2007 “A Mitochondrial Stratigraphy for Island Southeast Asia”
- N. J. Enfield “Areal Linguistics and Mainland Southeast Asia“, Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005.
- N. Tayles and H. R. Buckley “Leprosy and Tuberculosis in Iron Age Southeast Asia?“
- R. A. Bentley et al “Shifting Gender Relations at Khok Phanom Di, Thailand”
- Joyce White “Incorporating Heterarchy into Theory on Socio-Political Development” The Case from Southeast Asia
- Joyce White et al, “Vegetation changes from the late Pleistocene through the Holocene
from three areas of archaeological significance in Thailand”
- Roger Blench “A history of fruits on the SE Asian mainland”
- Roger Blench “Stratification in the Peopling of China”
- Niclas Burenhult “Foraging and the history of languages in the Malay Peninsula“
