Description |
1 online resource |
Summary |
The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabitants built wooden houses on poles whether they lived in flooded coastal plains or in the highlands. Their diet consisted mainly of rice and fish. They believed in common folk deities such as the rice-spirit. They chewed betel and engaged in pastimes such as cockfighting and sepak takraw. How did such features come to spread across an area of 4.5 million square kilometres? Southeast Asia-for all its diversity of ethnicity, language, religion-can best be understood as a region that ha |
Subject |
Trade routes-Southeast Asia-History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Mariana Isa, 1980- author.
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ISBN |
9789814893008 |
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9814893005 |
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