Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, according to the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses.

Director of the Center for South Asian Studies Lalita du Perron interviews students, faculty and alumni for her podcast, offering an inside look at South Asian Studies at Stanford and beyond.

Ethnoburbs — ethnic suburban enclaves — challenge assimilation and represent a form of resistance against the homogenizing ...

As the West throws up barriers to Chinese goods, they are flowing to emerging markets instead. In the past three years, the ...

Being a Christian is very important to being truly Filipino; And it is very important that the Philippine president shares ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

South Asian and East Asian adults living in the United Kingdom may have distinct trajectories to develop high blood pressure over their life course, according to new research published today in ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Karishma Mehrotra works as a South Asia correspondent for The Washington Post. Mehrotra was previously a Fulbright fellow and has written or worked for Radiolab, the Wall Street Journal ...

A newly created entity will be “the face and voice” of the mountain, the law says, with four members from local Māori iwi, or tribes, and four members appointed by the country’s ...