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Reinforcing Trust, Evoking Nostalgia and Contrasting China: Japan’s Foreign Policy Repertoire and Identity Construction in Myanmar
Full text linkIn the immediate aftermath of the military coup in Myanmar in February 2021, Western countries and the EU condemned the coup, imposed targeted sanctions against military leaders and military-owned companies, and redirected essential humanitarian aid to NGOs. Japan, however, chose to neither align with its democratic allies nor completely suspend its aid. Despite a long and complicated pre-war history and limited engagement after 1988, Japan-Myanmar relations experienced a resurgence between 2012 and 2021. This article contends that one key driving force in contemporary relations is identity construction. Drawing on the literature on relational identity and foreign policy repertoires, the article demonstrates how the discursive statements and embodied practices of a network of Japanese identity entrepreneurs activate, negotiate and renegotiate the identities of the Japanese Self and its Others. Through an analysis of interviews conducted with elite stakeholders in Myanmar and Japan, the article studies Japan’s constructed identity as an economic great power and post-war development pioneer, peace promoter and diplomatic mediator. It finds that Japan constructs its identity temporally in terms of nostalgia (natsukashisa) and a longing for a time when Japan was a post-war industrial powerhouse, but also spatially in terms of Japan’s legal, moral and industrial superiority over other countries involved in Myanmar’s development, in particular vis-à-vis China
Index Verborum der Śaunakasaṃhitā und der Paippalādasaṃhitā des Atharvaveda: Teil 2 - AVŚ → AVP
Full text linkAnnouncementTwo word indexes of the Atharvaveda are being published here. They are based on the Paippalāda edition (in press, at Würzburg) by Jeong Soo Kim and the standard Atharvaveda edition (Roth-Whitney-Lindenau).The first word index lists the words of the Śaunaka Saṃhitā (AVŚ, AV) with their locations in AVŚ; the second index lists the words of the Paippalāda Saṃhitā (AVP, PS) with their locations in AVP.
This publication had been planned and agreed on for publication in the Harvard Oriental Series (Vol.101 sqq.) years ago. However, due to my retirement from Harvard in September 2022, the current chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Parimal Patil, and his tenured colleagues have abruptedly taken away my editorship (HOS 50-100) and have stopped all publications for the foreseeable future. In this situation, S.J. Kim and I have opted for publishing his important work in EJVS. Pacta sunt servanda.We hope that this publication will further Atharvaveda Studies and Vedic studies in general, and beyond this (comparative) linguistic studies.
Michael WitzelWales Research Professor of Sanskrit,Department of South Asian Studies,Harvard UniversityThe present indices verborum of Atharvaveda began in 2015 with the inclusion of words from Kāṇḍas 8 and 9 (Kim 2014) and in subsequent years from Kāṇḍas 1 (Zehnder 1993), 2 (Zehnder 1999), 3 (Spiers 2020 unpubl.), 5 (Lubotsky 2002), 6-7 (Griffiths 2009), 13-14 (Lopez 2010), 15 (Lelli 2020), 17.1-6 (Selva 2014 unpubl.), 17.12-15 and 17.21-43 (Selva 2019 unpubl.) and 20.1-30 (Kubisch 2012). The AVP and AVŚ words that the author encountered in private readings (Kāṇḍa 16) and in lessons (Kāṇḍas 1) were also included. During the DFG project “Eine neue Edition des zweitältesten indischen Textes, der Śaunakasaṃhitā des Atharvaveda nebst der Erstellung eines Index verborum der Paippalādasaṃhitā und Śaunakasaṃhitā” (2018-2021), all words from the AVŚ (see: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-277038) and also the words from the AVP parallel passages were included. In the second phase of the project (01.2022-05.2023, funded by the DFG), the words from Kāṇḍa 11, 12, 19 and 20 of the Paippalādasaṃhitā were entered into the index. Bhattacharya's editions from 1997 to 2016 (as well as Bhattacharyya 1964 and 1970) were always taken into account when adding the lemmas. Most recently, the edits of Kāṇḍa 1 (revised by Zehnder 1993), Kāṇḍa 4 and Kāṇḍa 12 of the “Paippalāda Recension of the Atharvaveda. Online Edition (beta). https://www.atharvavedapaippalada.uzh.ch/” [visited, January 2024] was included in the present index, although it had already been completed.
In order to achieve as reliable an emendation as possible in the numerous difficult or corrupt passages, reference was made to my data collection of pronunciation and spelling errors in the Orissa Mss. (94 pages, unpubl.) and in the Kashmiri manuscript (109 pages, unpubl.), which enabled a statistical evaluation of the erroneous syllables according to their frequency. Unfortunately, not all cases are represented in the database, so that numerous passages are still open to discussion.
AnnouncementTwo word indexes of the Atharvaveda are being published here. They are based on the Paippalāda edition (in press, at Würzburg) by Jeong Soo Kim and the standard Atharvaveda edition (Roth-Whitney-Lindenau).The first word index lists the words of the Śaunaka Saṃhitā (AVŚ, AV) with their locations in AVŚ; the second index lists the words of the Paippalāda Saṃhitā (AVP, PS) with their locations in AVP.
This publication had been planned and agreed on for publication in the Harvard Oriental Series (Vol.101 sqq.) years ago. However, due to my retirement from Harvard in September 2022, the current chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Parimal Patil, and his tenured colleagues have abruptedly taken away my editorship (HOS 50-100) and have stopped all publications for the foreseeable future. In this situation, S.J. Kim and I have opted for publishing his important work in EJVS. Pacta sunt servanda.We hope that this publication will further Atharvaveda Studies and Vedic studies in general, and beyond this (comparative) linguistic studies.
Michael WitzelWales Research Professor of Sanskrit,Department of South Asian Studies,Harvard Universit
“Basketball war ein guter Teil meines Lebens“
No full textVon der philippinischen Nationalmannschaft in die deutsche Basketball-Bundesliga. Diana Ramos Dehn spricht über ihre außergewöhnliche Karriere in den 70er Jahren in einer bis dahin von Männern dominierten Sportart
Die Kinderjockeys von Sumbawa – eine Fotoreportage
No full textSumbawa ist bekannt für traditionelle Pferderennen, bei denen es um viel Geld geht. Die Kinder, die die kleinen Sumbawa-Pferde reiten, gehen hohe Risiken ein. Der Fotograf Romi Perbawa kämpft für ihre Rechte und ihre Sicherheit
Geist der Solidarität und des Miteinanders
No full textIm Juni 2023 fanden die Olympics World Games 2023 zum ersten Mal in Deutschland statt. 2027 wird Indonesien der Gastgeber sein. Ein Interview mit Warsito Ellwein, Vorsitzender von Special Olympics Indonesia (SOINA)
Arnis – philippinischer Kampfsport
No full textDie Geschichte der Kampfkunst Arnis geht weit in die vorkoloniale Zeit zurück. Der philippinische Nationalsport wird heute auch international ausgeübt