Author: AE

Baskets crafts intangible cultural heritage China Dong Yao In this article, the authors introduce the present-day basketry practices found among two minority nationalities populations living today on the northern borders of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Auton…

Bronze drum China cultural heritage material culture Yao sacred The bronze drum in Asia has long been regarded as a form of antiquity and a cultural relic of the bronze age, representative of cultural groups found in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar’s…

LGBT+ Sanskritization religious feminism hijṛā Kinnar akhāṛā This article introduces the Kinnar Akhara, a recently established transgender religious organization that stems from the hijṛā tradition, a religiously syncretic subculture of transgender ind…

Jiangyong ICH Women’s Script Chinese folklore cultural transmission The Chinese ICH (intangible cultural heritage) program has created the conditions for the invention of a new phase within the well-known “Women’s Script” tradition in Jiangyong County,…

Baltistan script politics nation-building geopolitics Tibetan past Pakistan The Baltis mostly inhabit a region at the western edge of the Himalayas, also known as Baltistan. Today, Baltistan is considered to be a geographic and geopolitical border regi…

Drung (Dulong/T’rung) tattoo body femininity fertility reproduction This article examines the tradition of facial tattooing among Drung women in Yunnan province, China. Now obsolete, the practice of female tattooing—by puncturing the skin, causing blee…