Materializing Southeast Asia's past. Volume 2 : selected papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists / edited by Marijke J. Klokke and Véronique Degroot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klokke, Marijke J., editor.

Degroot, Véronique, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Southeast Asia--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xvi, 289 pages) :) illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2013]

Summary:

'Materializing Southeast Asia's Past' contains articles in historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraph, and art history. The interpretations of art and material culture offer new understandings of classical Hindu and Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia and their relationship to the region's medieval cultures. The articles are presented under four headings, as follows: Art, religion and politics (Buddhist monuments in Java and Cambodia); Southeast Asian transformations (cultural exchange with South Asia); Technology (workmanship in art and material culture); and Southeast Asia between past and present.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Art, religion and politics : Buddhist monuments in Java and Cambodia

Borobudur : a monument of Avatam?saka Buddhism / Jan Fontein

Art historical evidence for the building phases of Borobudur / Marijke J. Klokke

Enshrouded in Dharma and Artha : the narrative sequence of Borobudur's first gallery wall / Cecelia Levin

The tantric roots of the Buddhist pantheon of Jayavarman VII / Peter D. Sharrock

Buddhist iconography in Brahmanical temples of Angkor / Vittorio Roveda

A study of wooden structures : a contribution to the architectural history of the Bayon style monuments / Olivier Cunin

Part 2. Southeast Asian transformations : cultural exchange with South Asia

Gold sheet images in a local Javanese style / Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer

The inscription on an embossed image of Sþiva in gold leaf from Central Java, Indonesia / Arlo Griffiths

Images of Sūrya from mainland Southeast Asia / Marion Frenger

Religious syncretism in 11th-century Thaton : a Southeast Asian transformation of Vis?s?u / Pamela Gutman

The context of the West Mebon Vis?s?u / Marnie Fenely

The cross-handed gesture in Sri Lankan and Thai art : a new observation / Chedha Tingsanchali

Part 3. Technology: workmanship in art and material culture

Techno-cultural perspectives on medieval Southeast Asia and Southern India : Pallava bronzes and beyond / Sharada Srinivasan

Khmer ceramic technology : a case study from Thnal Mrech Kiln Site, Phnom Kulen / Chhay Rachna, Heng Piphal and Chhay Visoth

The creative sculptural process as evidenced in the Rāmāyas?a reliefs of Candi Loro Jonggrang, Prambanan, Central Java / Natalie S.Y. Ong

Decorative lintels and ateliers at Mahendraparvata and Hariharālaya / Martin Polkinghorne

Part 4. Southeast Asia between past and present

Funeral scenes in the Rāmāyas?a mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati

Jars in the central highlands of mainland Southeast Asia / Louise Allison Cort and Leedom Lefferts

Pagoda desecration and Myanmar archaeology, 1853-86 / Elizabeth Howard Moore

Fame and fortune in two Philippine cemeteries : tombstones as extensions of identity / Grace Barretto-Tesoro and Joan Tara Reyes

About the authors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9971-69-680-0

OCLC:

867742001