Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

External reference: https://openalex.org/T12473

  1. Macassan encounters shaped Aboriginal Islamic contact in northern Australia
    Explore how Macassan Muslim traders introduced Islam to Aboriginal Australians centuries before British colonisation, examining cultural syncretism and selective religious adoption among Yolŋu.
  2. Historical records suggest a broader tara iti range
    Archival database documents the broader historical range of New Zealand's rarest endemic bird, tara iti, revealing substantial range contraction since European settlement.
  3. Hani marriage tokens shift from objects to symbols
    Explore how Hani marriage artifacts Riyue Pan and Pa An encode cultural memory and cosmological knowledge through symbolic coding and semiotic analysis in oral-transmission societies.
  4. Ancient and modern genomes show Neolithic paternal expansions
    Ancient and modern Y-chromosome analysis reveals how Neolithic millet and rice farmers from China migrated into Southeast Asia, shaping paternal genetic diversity and ethnolinguistic populations.