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 “four fields” meeting posed 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 mostly restricted 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 felt that the time was 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 emphasized discussion rather than lecture-style presentation, with papers be written and circulated in advance.
A volume is in preparation. It will include contributions that were presented at the meeting, as well as further commissioned chapters.
