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In the presence of the gods - Himal Southasian


In the presence of the gods
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalaya.
All photos courtesy of Don Messerschmidt
For more than two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonite stones, called Shaligram Shila… has been an integral part of Hindu ritual practice throughout Nepal and the Indian subcontinent. While ammonite fossils are common throughout the world, these unique types of black shale river fossils originate from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, in the Kali Gandaki River Valley of Mustang District. Today, the ritual use of these stones has become a significant focus of pilgrimage, religious co-participation, and exchange between Nepal and India as well as among the global Hindu diaspora. ....

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Galen Murton


Galen Murton is Assistant Professor of Geographic Science in the School of Integrated Sciences at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. A human geographer with broad research and teaching interests in the politics of international development, in 2018-19 he completed the project Road Diplomacy as a Marie Curie Fellow at Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. He has recently co-authored special issues and edited volumes related to cross-border infrastructure development in South Asia including Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). Other relevant contributions to scholarship on infrastructure, geopolitics, borderlands, and Himalayan Studies include publications in Political Geography; The Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS); Verge: Studies in Global Asias; Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space; and South Asia: ....

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Adam Clulow


I am a historian of early modern Asia. My work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia. My first book, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan, was published in 2014 and received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History from the American Historical Association, the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2015 Humanities Book Prize, the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize, and the W.K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Association. My second book, Amboina, 1623: Conspiracy and Fear on the Edge of Empire, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. I am also the editor of three books: with Tristan Mostert, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2018); with Lauren Benton and Bain Attwood, Protection and Empire: A Glo ....

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Germany's Knowledge Unlatched Starts Its 2021 Open Access Funding Round


The bid to convert more scholarly titles to open access continues, as Knowledge Unlatched seeks cooperation from a widening array of libraries.
A federal health ministry public service announcement on a tower of the Berlin Cathedral on April 25 reads “#Armelhoch für die Corona-Schutzimpfung,” essentially, “Roll up your sleeve for the coronavirus vaccination.” Image – iStockphoto: Lichtwolke
Climate Change Leads the ‘Focus Collection’
Berlin’s Knowledge Unlatched has today (May 4) announced the opening of its 2021 funding round, the eighth in this international open access initiative’s operation.
The round includes its legacy “Select Humanities and Social Sciences Books” collection and several new collections developed in partnerships with academic publishers and university presses, including University of Michigan Press, Amsterdam University Press, Central European University Press, and EDP Sciences. ....

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Medieval Madness: History Professor Pfau Explores Crime and Mental Illness in New Book


Medieval Madness: History Professor Pfau Explores Crime and Mental Illness in New Book
CONWAY, Ark. (March
1, 2021) The last year has been challenging from a mental health perspective
as people have had to cope with a global pandemic on top of the usual stresses
in their lives. These kinds of challenges were almost too familiar to people
living in the 14th and 15th centuries, when plague regularly recurred. In one
case from 1459, a man named Gouyn Cluchat living in the Auvergne region of France,
chose to move his family to try to avoid the plague that was ravaging their
village. In their new town, he was unable to access his usual sources of ....

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