Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Contributors vii
4. Map of Monsoon Asia ix
5. 1. Introduction: Re-connecting Histories across the Indo-Pacific 1
6. 2. Fearsome Bleeding, Boogeyman Gods and Chaos Victorious: A Conjectural History of Insular South Asian Religious Tropes 38
7. 3. Tantrism “Seen from the East” 71
8. 4. Can We Reconstruct a “Malayo-Javanic” Law Area? 145
9. 5. Ethnographic and Archaeological Correlates for an Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area 207
10. 6. Was There a Late Prehistoric Integrated Southeast Asian Maritime Space? Insight from Settlements and Industries 239
11. 7. Looms, Weaving and the Austronesian Expansion 273
12. 8. Pre-Austronesian Origins of Seafaring in Insular Southeast Asia 325
13. 9. The Role of “Prakrit” in Maritime Southeast Asia through 101 Etymologies 375
14. 10. Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak? 441
15. 11. Śāstric and Austronesian Comparative Perspectives: Parallel Frameworks on Indic Architectural and Cultural Translations among Western Malayo-Polynesian Societies 470
16. 12. The Lord of the Land Relationship in Southeast Asia 515
17. index 557