The Anau Seal and the Questions It Raises

Asian Studies, 2024

Since the late 17th century, the Mekong Delta has become a vibrant place for Vietnamese, ethnic Khmer, and ethnic Chinese settlements, forming mixed communities in terms of race and culture. As a new frontier, the Delta has continuously undergone state-sponsored "civilizing" processes. The resulting hybridity in folk culture gave birth to various religious sects, especially on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border. From the view of late imperial Confucianism, these groups were judged as "heretical sects" and their leaders "heretical masters". Despite being classified as "heretical", these local "masters" and their communities still insisted on the core Confucian values of benevolence, righteousness and patriotism. Chinese secret societies and rebels escaped to the Delta in different times, bringing new ideas to the region, especially the cults of Five Lord Buddhas, Maitreya, and the concept of the birth of the wise king. Under French suppression, these "heretical masters" changed their religious strategies, supported local military leaders and secret societies to "fight the French and restore Đại Nam". This research aims to investigate and analyse the "heretical" religious movements and ideological transformation of "heretical masters" in the Mekong River Delta in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thereby strengthening the argument that although Vietnam's local religious elites were marginalized and suppressed by state governance (the Nguyễn dynasty, French colonialists), they always cared

Academia Letters, 2022

El Universal, 2024

Los abusos que cometen las grandes compañías de tecnología -big techs- son recurrentes. En Estados Unidos, tanto presidentes demócratas -como Biden-, o republicanos -como Trump-, han amagado aplicarles leyes antimonopolio para contener los excesos de los gigantes tecnológicos. A pesar de frecuentes advertencias y amagos, las grandes firmas tecnológicas no parecen dispuestas a rectificar. La administración del presidente Biden ha decidido proceder con autoridad frente a TikTok, exigiendo a ByteDance, propietario de TikTok, el corporativo dueño de TikTok, concretar la venta de la referida red sociodigital en menos de un año, o será prohibida en Estados Unidos.

Ecovisões Projetuais: Pesquisas em Design e Sustentabilidade no Brasil – Volume 2, 2021

Pravěk NŘ 20, 231-246, 2013

Silesia is an unique region regarding a number of known archaeological sites dated to the late Bronze and early Iron Age. Many of them were excavated to a degree allowing reconstruction of various aspects of life of their former inhabitants, including settlement analyses, artefact studies etc. This paper presents main directions of research and general results achieved by several generations of archaeologists in their studies on the discussed period. I focused mostly on types of excavated sites, methods both of excavating and presenting archaeological sites and artefacts.