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Jaina Mendicant Paraphernalia Warehouses (2025)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2025). Jaina Mendicant Paraphernalia Warehouses. Jaina studies, 20, 16-22. https://www.soas.ac.uk/research/research-centres/centre-jaina-studies/newsletter-centre-jaina-studies

Providing for small groups of mendicants roaming in the villages is relatively easy. However, the large entourages accompanying the ācāryas often pose challenges not only regarding the supply of food and drink but also items for daily use. These chal... Read More about Jaina Mendicant Paraphernalia Warehouses.

Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia (2024)
Journal Article
Darmawan, A. (2024). Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2294612

This article discusses the efforts of constructing the narrative of continuity that connects the Indonesian province of Riau Islands with the former Malay kingdoms, Riau-Lingga-Johor-Pahang, and supports the claims to be the heir of the originator of... Read More about Erecting the submerged tree trunk: Mak Yong theatre and practices of traditionalisation in the Riau Islands, Indonesia.

Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
Book
I. Dorfmann. (Ed.). (2022). Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjdgt6

This volume is one of the few collections of studies that looks at the South Caucasus - from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east - as a shared cultural space. It explores contacts between Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Muslims o... Read More about Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North (2020)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2020). The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North. In K. Howard, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Presence Through Sound : Music and Place in East Asia (pp. 102-117). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295-8

This chapter explores sonic icons of Korean musical identity, asking how they are used today to establish an image of place that is far from what they stood for in the past. It considers the nationally and internationally familiar soundworld of kugak... Read More about The Constructed Soundscapes of Place in Korea, South and North.

Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia (2020)
Book
K. Howard, & C. Ingram. (Eds.). (2020). Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326295

Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which music and ‘place’ intersect and are interwoven with meaning in East Asia. It ex... Read More about Presence Through Sound: Place and Contemporary Music in East Asia.

Abstract Book, The 45th International Council for Traditional Music World Conference (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2019, July 11-17). Abstract Book, The 45th International Council for Traditional Music World Conference [Conference session]. World Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

Abstract Booklet, edited, for ICTM World Conference at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 11-17 July 2019. 640 papers, and associated presentations. 453 pages

Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018) (2019)
Digital Artefact
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Kadich, D. (2019, June 5). Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018) [Streaming audio]. New Books Network. https://newbooksnetwork.com/safet-hadzimuhamedovic-waiting-for-elijah-time-and-encounter-in-a-bosnian-landscape-berghahn-books-2018/

Anthropologist of landscape and religion Safet HadžiMuhamedović, author of WAITING FOR ELIJAH: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn Books), recently spoke with the NBN's Dino Kadich about topics addressed in the book. Find out more abo... Read More about Interview on Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Berghahn, 2018).

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (pp. 129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.

Afterword (2018)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2018). Afterword. In B. Norton, & N. Matsumoto (Eds.), Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives (pp. 278-284). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315393865-14

Discourse on music as heritage has too often evaded the challenge of maintaining performance and creation, the factors that define artistic practice, and has instead concentrated on documentation, collecting, and archiving. Museums had or were establ... Read More about Afterword.

Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research. The Silk Road (Sofia), 4, 291-300. https://confuciusinstitute.bg/images/2020/02/The-Silk-Road-2017.pdf

The current and continuing shifts in frequently contrasting „official” and popular stances multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Europe are clearly symptomatic of the growing crisis of state multiculturalism in Europe, a crisis increasingly vis... Read More about Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions (2016)
Book
K. Howard. (Ed.). (2016). Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596723

Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage explores the longstanding and extensive efforts to preserve music in East Asia, documenting and charting parallels and differences in legislation and the operation of systems for preservation and conservation, an... Read More about Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Policy, Ideology and Practice in the Preservation of East Asian Traditions.

Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage (2014)
Book Chapter
Howard, K. (2014). Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage. In C. Bithell, & J. Hill (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Revival (pp. 135-159). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199765034.013.001

This article has been commissioned as part of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music Revival edited by Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. This chapter explores the revival of the intangible cultural heritage, and the interface between preservation... Read More about Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2013, August 1-1). The Life and Death of Music as East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage [Keynote]. Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies, Bergen.

An exploration of the policies for preserving and promoting music as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Korea and Japan, looking at the emerging distinction between preserved forms and commercial/professional derivatives.

Review of Nathan Hesselink, 'SamulNori' (2013)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2013). Review of Nathan Hesselink, 'SamulNori' [Review of the book SamulNori]. Journal of Asian studies, 72(1), 213-215. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911812002100

Jindo: Creating a cultural paradise (2012)
Other
Howard, K. (2012, October 30). Jindo: Creating a cultural paradise. Chindo hakhoe ch'angnim 10-chunyôn kinyôm.

This paper reflects on the policies and practice of cultural preservation (protection, conservation) in Jindo, South Jeonla, Republic of Korea, and links Jindo efforts to the broad swathe of international activity. Given the many arguments amongst Ko... Read More about Jindo: Creating a cultural paradise.

SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection (2012)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2012). SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection. The world of music (Wilhelmshaven), 1(1), 15-35.

SamulNori, first performed in 1978, is now both a celebrated quartet of percussionists and a genre of percussion music. This is the first of four articles to explore its contemporary manifestation and to project forward, using interview and other mat... Read More about SamulNori: Korean drums (and gongs) of affection.