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Category : Asia
Languages : fr
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Publications de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Publications de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past
Author: Peter SharrockPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9789971694050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Interpreting Southeast Asia's Past: Monument, Image and Text features 31 papers read at the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, held in London in September 2004. The volume covers monumental arts, sculpture and painting, epigraphy and heritage management across mainland Southeast Asia and as far south as Indonesia. New research on monumental arts includes chapters on the Bayon of Angkor and the great brick temple sites of Champa. There is an article discussing the purpose of making and erecting sacred sculptures in the ancient world and accounts of research on the sacred art of Burma, Thailand and southern China (including the first study of the few surviving Saiva images in Burma), of a spectacular find of bronze Mahayana Buddhas, and of the sculpted bronzes of the Dian culture. New research on craft goods and crafting techniques deals with ancient Khmer materials, including recently discovered ceramic kiln sites, the sandstone sources of major Khmer sculptures, and the rare remaining traces of paint, plaster and stucco on stone and brick buildings. More widely distributed goods also receive attention, including Southeast Asian glass beads, and there are contributions on Southeast Asian heritage and conservation, including research on Angkor as a living World Heritage site and discussion of a UNESCO project on the stone jars of the Plain of Jars in Laos that combines recording, safeguarding, bomb clearance, and eco-tourism development.
Publications de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Southeast Asia
Author: Peter BellwoodPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100094008X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus for the first recorded sea crossings; as the region of origin for the Austronesian population dispersal across the Pacific from Neolithic times; as an arena for the development of archaeologically-rich Neolithic, and metal using communities, especially in Thailand and Vietnam, and as the backdrop for several unique and strikingly monumental Indic civilizations, such as the Khmer civilization centred around Angkor. Southeast Asia is invaluable to anyone interested in the full history of the region.
Publications de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient
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Author: Publications de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Publications de l'E̋cole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: École française d'Extrême-OrientPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 224
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Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Author: École française d'Extrême-OrientPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : fr
Pages : 464
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