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New Publication: After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below by Hamzah Muzaini and Claudia Minca (eds.)
Muzaini, Hamzah and Claudia Minca (eds.), After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below, UK and US: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018 Focusing on the practices and politics of heritage-making at the individual and the local level, this book uses a wide… Continue Reading
Things you always wanted to ask Singapore’s first archaeologist
The John N. Miksic Interview with Mothership.SG
Prof John Miksic was recently interviewed by Mothership.SG, a Singapore Internet media company with one of the largest digital platforms in Singapore. Check out his interview here where he recalls his first archaeology dig in Singapore with NSFs who went… Continue Reading
Professor John Miksic wins the inaugural Singapore history prize
Archaeologist wins inaugural Singapore history prize Thursday, 11 January 2018, The Straits Times SINGAPORE – An archaeologist whose work refutes the common misperception that Singapore’s history started with the landing of Sir Stamford Raffles has been awarded the inaugural Singapore… Continue Reading
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) 2017
Archaeology Magazine – Singapore: The Lion City’s Surprising Past
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar, Monday 16 October 2017 for Archaeology Magazine The Lion City’s Glorious Past The founding mythology of this city-state was once thought to be pure fiction—archaeology says otherwise In 1817, Sir Stamford Raffles, the governor of the British… Continue Reading
New Publication: Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State by Vatthana Pholsena and Vanina Boute (eds.)
Pholsena, Vatthana and Vanina Boute (eds.), Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State, Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017 One of the lesser-studied countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has gone through momentous changes over… Continue Reading
New Publication: Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina by Gerard Sasges
Sasges, Gerard, Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina, Hawaii: University of Hawai’i Press, 2017 Imperial Intoxication provides a unique window on Indochina between 1860 and 1939. It illuminates the contradictory mix of modern and archaic, power and impotence, civil… Continue Reading