Tộc người và văn hóa tộc người từ lâu đã là đối tượng nghiên cứu của các ngành khoa học xã hội và nhân văn; trong đó, Nhân học luôn giữ vai trò chủ đạo. Tộc người là một cộng đồng người có sức sống xuyên thời gian và mỗi tộc người có một nền văn hóa riêng. Văn hóa gắn liền với một tộc người và góp phần làm nên sức mạnh để tộc người đó phát triển và giữ được bản sắc của mình.

Trong bối cảnh hiện nay, khi toàn cầu hóa như là một xu thế tất yếu thì việc nghiên cứu các khía cạnh tộc người và văn hóa tộc người là một đòi hỏi và cũng là một yêu cầu khách quan, góp phần vào sự phát triển và phát triển bền vững của các quốc gia, các tộc người trên bình diện thế giới cũng như ở Việt Nam.

Sách gồm tập hợp các bài viết của nhiều tác giả chia ra làm 3 chủ đề chính:
Chủ đề 1: Vấn đề giáo dục và nghiên cứu khoa học
Chủ đề 2: Tộc người – văn hóa tộc người – Tôn giáo
Chủ đề 3: Những vấn đề khu vực

Archaeometallurgy, the study of human : metal interactions during the production, exchange and consumption of metal artefacts and by-products, has a variable time depth and intensity around IPPA’s geographical remit. East Asian metals research has long been at the cutting edge of the field but all IPPA regions have advanced rapidly in the last decade, to the point where useful data comparisons and syntheses are now becoming viable for this potentially far-voyaging material culture medium.
The number of trained specialists remains low, especially with respect to the vast territories that remain archaeologically unexplored and the numerous excavated assemblages that have yet to be studied. Nevertheless, we are pleased to note the growing number of students and young researchers gradually bettering our understanding of how metals and their extended lifecycles were integrated and manipulated, in various spheres, particularly economic and political.
This session would like to welcome researchers and students to share with the community their work and discoveries related to the study of ancient metallurgy and metals, of any period and from across the entire IPPA remit. It is hoped that this session will serve as a venue for scholars to present, discuss, and exchange their ideas and perspectives on ancient metallurgy, so we can better understand and interpret from the scale of the atom to the phase, artefact, assemblage, site, locality, region and continent.
 
If you wish to present your paper, please express your interest to us via email (pira.venunan@gmail.com and kalayar.yinminnthu@gmail.com) no later than 15 March 2018. Abstracts of 250 words will be required by the end of March 2018.

Conveners: Ben Dharmendra, Roland Fletcher, and Michael Leadbetter; bdha2564@uni.sydney.edu.au
The current application of new technologies, theories and methodologies are driving a fluorescence of new perspectives on settlements and cities across Southeast Asia. A number of new trends, interpretations and sites are emerging. However, there remains a lack of clarity regarding the integration of settlements and cities into the history of the region. Bridging the gap between regional and site specific perspectives will greatly aid in this endeavour. This double session will bring together scholars utilising diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to both regional and site-specific research questions. The intention is to help compare, cohere, and further catalyse these new perspectives and help chart the trajectories of future research.

Glenn Summerhayes, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago (glenn.summerhayes@otago.ac.nz)
Anne Ford, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago (anne.ford@otago.ac.nz)
Ben Shaw, PANGEA Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science
University of New South Wales (ben.shaw@unsw.edu.au) 
 

The Western Pacific has witnessed some of the largest scale migrations in human history, from the late Pleistocene initial colonization of modern humans, through to the long distance sea voyages of the Austronesians in the late Holocene. These migrations have caused substantial environmental and cultural change as new colonists learn how to adapt to or modify new environments and their resources. For the Austronesians, these new encounters would also have coincided with meeting preexisting populations in Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, prior to their movement out into the remoter parts of the Pacific, where they transported cultural landscapes onto previously uninhabited islands. The panel participants will discuss the latest research on a range of topics related to this long history, including the colonization of new environments and development of agriculture in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Austronesian movement into the Western Pacific, and later regional developments in environment and cultural histories. This panel includes papers focused on the Western Pacific region (Japan, West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Solomons, Vanuatu, Fiji, Micronesia, Madagascar).