Spirits and ships [electronic resource] : cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spirits and ships: cultural transfers in early monsoon Asia -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Re-connecting Histories across the Indo-Pacific -- 2. Fearsome Bleeding, Boogeyman Gods and Chaos Victorious: A Conjectural History of Insular South Asian Religious Tropes -- 3. Tantrism'Seen from the East' -- 4. Can We Reconstruct a'Malayo-Javanic' Law Area? -- 5. Ethnographic and Archaeological Correlates for an Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area¹ -- 6. Was There a Late Prehistoric Integrated Southeast Asian Maritime Space?: Insight from Settlements and Industries -- 7. Looms, Weaving and the Austronesian Expansion -- 8. Pre-Austronesian Origins of Seafaring in Insular Southeast Asia -- 9. The Role of'Prakrit' in Maritime Southeast Asia Through 101 Etymologies -- 10. Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak? -- 11. Śāstric and Austronesian Comparative Perspectives: Parallel Frameworks on Indic Architectural and Cultural Translations among Western Malayo-Polynesian Societies -- 12. The Lord of the Land Relationship in Southeast Asia -- Index.