Thursday, November 02, 8:30 am–10:00 am
Council Suite
This live event will not be recorded.
Sponsored by the Transnational Asia/Pacific Section
See also 02-07, 03-07, and 04-07
Chair: Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana University)
8:30 am
Basketry and Festival among the Dong (Kam) People
Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana University)
9:00 am
Vernacular History in a Karen Community of Northern Thailand
Patawee Promsen (Naresuan University)
9:30 am
Cultural Representation of Southwest China Through the Lens of a Yi Collection in Milwaukee
Chunfen Zhou (Indiana University)
Seeking to actively join interdisciplinary discussions already underway while prompting new disciplinary ones, these panels bring together a diverse range of folklorists working with the minoritized peoples of the boundary-crossing region known variously as the Southeast Asian Massif or, more controversially, Zomia. Spanning the conventional regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, the region connects Southwest China through parts of Southeast Asia to parts of Northeast India. This set of panels will feature studies grounded in museum research, ethnography, oral history, and ethnopoetics and will include folklorists working among peoples in—but also from—the Southeast Asian Massif.