Special Issue: Perfumery and Ritual in Asia

• Published in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 1
• Main Author: Ansari, Sarah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-01-2013
• Subjects: Asian languages; Language history; Religion; Beijing China; United States > US; Asia; China; Baghdad Iraq; Iraq; India
• ISSN: 1356-1863; 0035-869X; 2051-2066; 1474-0591
• DOI: 10.1017/S1356186313000060

As readers of this Journal will appreciate, our remit is broad; both in
regard to time (from before the Common Era to the closing decades of the
twentieth century) and as far as place (from Baghdad to Beijing and beyond)
is concerned. This gives us the opportunity to publish research on those
elements of human activity that bind or separate cultures on the macro level
both historically and geographically. Languages, for example, gather or
divide populations. The challenges experienced by Asian language
communities, engaged on the task of adopting the Roman script, were examined
by a group of linguists in Vol. 20 (January 2010). Religion and kingship are
other phenomena that make or break barriers and in Vol. 22 (January 2012) we
published a series of complementary articles that looked at the Paramara
dynasty, their religious involvements with Jainism, the Śaiva tradition of
Hindusim and Buddhism in its initial homeland, North India.