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Cultural History In Focus | “Baby Carriers: A Link Between Social and Spiritual Values Among the Kenyah Dayak of Borneo” by Herbert L. Whittier & Patricia R. Whittier
June 25, 2026
Cultural History In Focus | “Baby Carriers: A Link Between Social and Spiritual Values Among the Kenyah Dayak of Borneo” by Herbert L. Whittier & Patricia R. Whittier
June 25, 2026
June 25, 2026
Cultural History In Focus | “Marshall Islands Cartography” by William Davenport
May 22, 2026
Cultural History In Focus | “Marshall Islands Cartography” by William Davenport
May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
Cultural History In Focus | “Prince or Pembekel? The man in the painting looted from Cakranegara, Lombok” by Aditya Bayu Perdana & Ahmad Sugeng
April 30, 2026
Cultural History In Focus | “Prince or Pembekel? The man in the painting looted from Cakranegara, Lombok” by Aditya Bayu Perdana & Ahmad Sugeng
April 30, 2026
April 30, 2026
“Further Adventures in Chronology and Authenticity: The Kayanic Arts of Borneo” by Antonio J. Guerreiro & Steven G. Alpert
November 30, 2025
“Further Adventures in Chronology and Authenticity: The Kayanic Arts of Borneo” by Antonio J. Guerreiro & Steven G. Alpert
November 30, 2025
November 30, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Custom, Combat, and Ceremony: Java and the Indo-Persian Textile Trade” by Jiri Jakl & Tom Hoogervorst
September 29, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Custom, Combat, and Ceremony: Java and the Indo-Persian Textile Trade” by Jiri Jakl & Tom Hoogervorst
September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Revisiting Imun Ajo’ Uyan: An Ancient Shamanic Bronze Figure from Central Borneo” by Antonio J. Guerreiro
August 30, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Revisiting Imun Ajo’ Uyan: An Ancient Shamanic Bronze Figure from Central Borneo” by Antonio J. Guerreiro
August 30, 2025
August 30, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Conflict, Defensive Sites and Oral Tradition: A History of Settlement in Atauro” from Archipel
May 28, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Conflict, Defensive Sites and Oral Tradition: A History of Settlement in Atauro” from Archipel
May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
Cultural History In Focus | “Who Is the Dalang?” by Matthew Isaac Cohen from Tablet
September 27, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Who Is the Dalang?” by Matthew Isaac Cohen from Tablet
September 27, 2024
September 27, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Between resistance and co-operation; Contact zones in the Aru Islands in the VOC period” by Hans Hägerdal
July 29, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Between resistance and co-operation; Contact zones in the Aru Islands in the VOC period” by Hans Hägerdal
July 29, 2024
July 29, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Pangolin, Rama, and the garden in Lanka in the 9th century CE: A few notes on a symbolically powerful “anteater” by Jiri Jakl
June 23, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Pangolin, Rama, and the garden in Lanka in the 9th century CE: A few notes on a symbolically powerful “anteater” by Jiri Jakl
June 23, 2024
June 23, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940” by Bernard Sellato
May 27, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940” by Bernard Sellato
May 27, 2024
May 27, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “The Brisbane Museum’s Collection of Queensland Shields” by Bill Evans from Tribal Art Magazine + Rainforest Shields: A Tribute to Bill Evans
March 28, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “The Brisbane Museum’s Collection of Queensland Shields” by Bill Evans from Tribal Art Magazine + Rainforest Shields: A Tribute to Bill Evans
March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “A Real Seafaring People”: Evocations of Sailing in Malay Literature by Pierre-Yves Manguin
March 25, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “A Real Seafaring People”: Evocations of Sailing in Malay Literature by Pierre-Yves Manguin
March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya
February 28, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya
February 28, 2024
February 28, 2024
Cultural History In Focus | “Ku and the Battlefield of Authenticity: A Hawaiian Feather Image between Empathic and Objectified Authenticity” by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
November 28, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Ku and the Battlefield of Authenticity: A Hawaiian Feather Image between Empathic and Objectified Authenticity” by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
November 28, 2023
November 28, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent” by Michaela Appel
July 28, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent” by Michaela Appel
July 28, 2023
July 28, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Macanas: The Art of Clubs from Amazonia” by Alexandre Bernand
February 27, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Macanas: The Art of Clubs from Amazonia” by Alexandre Bernand
February 27, 2023
February 27, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Warfare, Pacification, and Environment: Population Dynamics in the West Borneo Borderlands (1823‑1934)” by Reed L. Wadley
January 24, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “Warfare, Pacification, and Environment: Population Dynamics in the West Borneo Borderlands (1823‑1934)” by Reed L. Wadley
January 24, 2023
January 24, 2023
Cultural History In Focus | “A.W. Nieuwenhuis Across Borneo (1894-1994)” by Bernard Sellato
December 26, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “A.W. Nieuwenhuis Across Borneo (1894-1994)” by Bernard Sellato
December 26, 2022
December 26, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Colonial Official as Ethnographer: VOC Documents as Resources for Social History in Eastern Indonesia” by Hans Hägerdal
November 23, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Colonial Official as Ethnographer: VOC Documents as Resources for Social History in Eastern Indonesia” by Hans Hägerdal
November 23, 2022
November 23, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tropics and the East-Central European Gaze: The Natural World of Southeast Asia in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings” by Tomasz Ewertowski
October 24, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tropics and the East-Central European Gaze: The Natural World of Southeast Asia in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings” by Tomasz Ewertowski
October 24, 2022
October 24, 2022
The Inseparable Couple: Loro Blonyo at the National Museum of Scotland | Commentary by Steven G. Alpert
October 21, 2022
The Inseparable Couple: Loro Blonyo at the National Museum of Scotland | Commentary by Steven G. Alpert
October 21, 2022
October 21, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “Primates and Birds of Sabulungan” by Juniator Tulius & Linda Burman-Hall
August 26, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “Primates and Birds of Sabulungan” by Juniator Tulius & Linda Burman-Hall
August 26, 2022
August 26, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
April 25, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
April 25, 2022
April 25, 2022
Cultural History In Focus | “Spain’s Well-Kept Secret: Northwest Coast Art in the Museo de América” by Araceli Sanchez Garrido from Tribal Art Magazine
December 20, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Spain’s Well-Kept Secret: Northwest Coast Art in the Museo de América” by Araceli Sanchez Garrido from Tribal Art Magazine
December 20, 2021
December 20, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Honoring of the Successful Yahray Warriors” by Niels Beckers
December 13, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Honoring of the Successful Yahray Warriors” by Niels Beckers
December 13, 2021
December 13, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu: Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms” by Yancey Orr
August 27, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu: Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms” by Yancey Orr
August 27, 2021
August 27, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Material Words: The Aesthetic Grammar of Toraja Textiles, Carvings, and Ritual Language” by Aurora Donzelli
July 21, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Material Words: The Aesthetic Grammar of Toraja Textiles, Carvings, and Ritual Language” by Aurora Donzelli
July 21, 2021
July 21, 2021
“Jaraik: Origin and Uses of an Ancient Mentawaian Design” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
May 29, 2021
“Jaraik: Origin and Uses of an Ancient Mentawaian Design” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
May 29, 2021
May 29, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Tongan Club Iconography: An Attempt to Unravel Visual Metaphors Through Myth” by Frans-Karel Weener
May 25, 2021
Cultural History In Focus | “Tongan Club Iconography: An Attempt to Unravel Visual Metaphors Through Myth” by Frans-Karel Weener
May 25, 2021
May 25, 2021

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