Southeast Asian Scripts: From the Centers to the Margins

About

This lecture focuses on two distinct but related writing traditions in Southeast Asia: those at centers of power and those at the margins. Looking at centers, the lecture examines religious manuscript production such as Indonesian texts. For the margins, the focus will be on Zomia -- a geographically and culturally peripheral area corresponding to the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia -- where writing and resistance to centralizing states will be among the themes discussed. The lecture will also cover the cultural, social, psychological, historical, geographical, and spiritual aspects of writing. "Endangered Alphabets and Why We Write" is a three-part series cosponsored by the Library with the Endangered Alphabets Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization that supports endangered, minority and indigenous cultures by preserving their writing systems through original artwork and educational materials. The featured speaker in this lecture series is the project's director Tim Brookes, while Library of Congress librarians will also speak briefly in each virtual lecture to introduce relevant materials in Library's collections.

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Library of Congress, in Library of Congress

Licence or status

Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.

Credit

Library of Congress

Language

English

Country

United States

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed