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137005
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Austronesia, one of the largest language families in the world, covers a vast area from Madagascar in the extreme west to Easter Island in the far east, Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south. The languages are spoken by the people of insular southeast Asia, Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia in the Pacific, as well as certain parts of the Asia mainland. The vernacular architecture of the people that belong to this language family shows certain shared characteristics that seem to indicate a common origin in the distant past. The Grand Shrines at Ise, Japan pose an intriguing phenomenon because they possess striking architectural features that are reminiscent of Austronesian vernacular architecture. This paper is an attempt to investigate the phenomenon using the findings of studies by experts from other disciplines such as historians, anthropologists, linguists and others, based on the link between culture, language and architecture.1
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134260
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The early decades of the twentieth century saw the development of a popular, albeit hitherto little explored, branch of ‘scientific’ knowledge in the Hindi public sphere. Known as ‘santati-śāstra’ (lit. ‘the science of progeny’ or ‘progeniology’), this branch of knowledge instructed newly-married middle-class couples on how to produce mentally and physically perfect children. This essay begins with a comparison between santati-śāstra and eugenics as it was promoted in India and elsewhere. Analysing two specific issues treated in santati-śāstra literature, it shows that this form of knowledge based its principles not on ‘classical eugenics’ as promulgated by Francis Galton and re-adapted by Indian eugenicists, but on an entirely different set of sources, which included Ayurveda, ratiśāstra, and theories on heredity stemming from a mid-nineteenth-century American phrenologist. Santati-śāstra's singular frame of ‘scientific’ reference, and especially its use of Western ‘fringe science’, provide new insights into the multiple, and sometimes unexpected, ways in which ‘Western science’ functioned as a legitimising source in vernacular texts.
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