Internet Resources II: Culture and Society

Regional

SEAsite

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/
Created by the Southeast Asia Studies program at Northern Illinois University, SEAsite Includes a wide range of scholarly information on Southeast Asian arts, culture, and language. Special attention is given to the arts and culture of Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Southeast Asia Web's Arts, Music, Literature & Performance Homepage

www.gunung.com/seasiaweb/SEA-Arts.html
Includes a substantial index of internet resources relavant to the study of Southeast Asian arts & culture.

Picture Archive

http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/outreach/picarchive.html
The Picture Archive, compiled by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, contains thousands of photographs of contemporary Southeast Asia.

Things Asian

http://www.thingsasian.com/
Includes a variety of academic and recreational articles and photo essays relating to Southeast Asian arts and culture. Particular emphasis is given to travel diaries and other tourist literature.

Art of Southeast Asia

http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/seasia/seasia.html
Provides a detailed index of academic and non-academic internet sites featuring the arts and culture of Southeast Asia. Special attention is given to Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Cultural Briefings

http://www.culturebriefings.com/Pages/CBpages/cblistlk.html
Created by the Geotravel Research Center, Cultural Briefings provides extensive information on the cultures of various peoples around the world. Its section on Vietnam and Malaysia is especially strong.

Cambodia

Cambodian Classical Dance

http://users.rcn.com/tskramer/dance.html
Contains some full-text articles, images of traditional court costumes, music files, and a bibliography of secondary sources related to the study of Cambodian arts and culture. Special emphasis is on classical dance and music. Also includes links to related Internet resources on the traditional arts and culture of Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines

Dance: The Spirit of Cambodia

http://www.asiasource.org/cambodia/index.html Includes full-text scholarly articles, images and music files relevant to the study of Cambodian arts and culture, particularly classical music and dance.

Philippines

South East Asian Images and Texts Project (SEAit)

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SEAiT/
Launched by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, SEAit is a digital archive of historical photographs of Southeast Asia. At present, the archive includes photos of the Philippines only.

Noel's Filipino Folkdance Glossary

http://home.netcom.com/~ntamayo/folkdance.html
Includes a glossary of Filipino folkdance terminology, literature, music files, images, references, and a calendar of Filipino cultural events.

Thailand

Beautiful Thailand

http://home.planet.nl/%7Ehendr012/indexeng.htm
Contains general information on both traditional and popular Thai culture.

Pictures of Thailand

http://www.xs4all.nl/~devadeep/
Contains thousands of high-quality digital photographs of Thailand.

Karen Webpage: On the Sgaw Karen of Northern Thailand

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/leming/karenpage.htm
Created by Michael Leming, Professor of Sociology at St. Olaf College, this site contains extensive information, including a select, but substantial, bibliography, on the culture and daily lives of the Karen people of northern Thailand.