Surface collection : archaeological travels in Southeast Asia / Denis Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrne, Denis (Denis Richard), 1949-

Series:

Worlds of archaeology series

Worlds of archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byrne, Denis (Denis Richard), 1949-.

Travel.

Cultural property--Protection.

Southeast Asia--Description and travel.

Southeast Asia.

Cultural property--Protection--Southeast Asia.

Cultural property.

Byrne, Denis (Denis Richard), 1949---Travel--Southeast Asia.

Byrne, Denis.

Physical Description:

xix, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2007]

Summary:

Written as a travelogue, Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each chapter the author makes the past relevant to the present through his encounters with archaeological sites. While the book's anecdotes are associated primarily with the Philippines and Indonesia, they will be of interest to a broad audience because of the stories they tell-from a decaying national museum in Manila, to the search for traces of the thousands of Communists killed in Bali following the 1965 attempted coup, to the discovery of a bottle of perfume found among the personal effects of Indonesian ex-president Sukarno.

Contents:

Intramuros

Rice growing and heritage

Traveling in Karangasem

Traces of 1965-1966

Shalimar and Sukarno

Spectral coastline

Vung Tau

The divine underground.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index.

ISBN:

9780759110175

0759110174

9780759110182

0759110182

OCLC:

86117707