The Angkorian world edited by Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark and Damian Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hendrickson, Mitch J., editor.

Stark, Miriam T., editor.

Evans, Damian, editor.

Series:

Routledge worlds

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Angkor (Extinct city)--History.

Angkor (Extinct city).

Angkor (Extinct city)--Civilization.

Cambodia--Antiquities.

Cambodia.

Antiquities.

Civilization.

Cambodia--Angkor (Extinct city).

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 661 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Mitch Hendrickson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He worked as an archaeologist in northwest Mexico, the Canadian Plains, and High Arctic before shifting his focus to Cambodia in 2001. His initial research on the development and role of the Angkorian road system enabled him to develop two ongoing projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts on the technological transformation that enabled expansions of the Khmer Empire and understanding religious transition at the site of Preah Khan of Kompong Svay. Miriam T. Stark is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA. Her 40-year career includes fieldwork in North America, the Near East, and Southeast Asia; she launched her first field project in Cambodia in 1996. Her Cambodian research, through multiple projects in collaboration with Cambodia's Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, focuses on protohistoric to Angkorian period urbanism, early state formation, and political economy. Damian Evans is Senior Research Fellow at the Ecole française d'Extrm̊e-Orient in Paris and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He is involved in a diverse array of projects across Southeast Asia encompassing archaeology, heritage, and the earth sciences, and he has initiated and overseen archaeological projects in Cambodia since the late 1990s. His work focuses on using earth observation technologies such as satellite imagery, radar, and lidar to understand the relationship between humans and their environments from the deep past to the present day.

Summary:

"The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asia's largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE. Chapters by leading scholars combine evidence from archaeology, texts, and the natural sciences to introduce the Angkorian state, describe its structure, and explain its persistence over more than six centuries. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be an indispensable resource for anyone studying premodern Asia. The volume's first of six sections provide historical and environmental contexts, discusses data sources, and the nature of knowledge production. The next three sections examine the anthropogenic landscapes of Angkor (agrarian, urban, and hydraulic), the state institutions that shaped the Angkorian state, and the economic foundations on which Angkor operated. Part V explores Angkorian ideologies and realities, from religion and nation to identity. The volume's last part reviews political and aesthetic Angkorian legacies in an effort to explain why the idea of Angkor remains central to its Cambodian descendants. Maps, graphics and photographs guide readers through the content of each chapter. Chapters in this volume synthesize more than a century of work at Angkor and in the regions it influenced. The Angkorian World will satisfy students, researchers, academics, and the knowledgeable layperson who seeks to understand how this great Angkorian Empire arose and functioned in the premodern world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans with Roland Fletcher

Part I. Contexts. An environmental history of Angkor : beginning to end / Dan Penny and Tegan Hall

Texts and objects : exploiting the literary sources in Mediaeval Cambodia / Dominique Soutif and Julia Estève

'Invisible Cambodians' : knowledge production in the history Of Angkorian archaeology / Heng Piphal, Seng Sonetra and Nhim Sotheavin

The Mekong Delta and the Angkorian world / Miriam T. Stark and Pierre-Yves Manguin

The early capitals of Angkor / Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Christophe Pottier

Angkor's multiple Southeast Asia overland connections / Kenneth. R. Hall

Angkor and China : 9th-15th centuries / Miriam T. Stark and Aedeen Cremin

Part II. Landscapes. Forests, palms, and paddy fields : the plant ecology of Angkor / Tegan Hall and Dan Penny

Angkor and the Mekong River : settlement, resources, mobility and power / Heng Piphal

Trajectories of urbanism in the Angkorian world / Damian Evans, Roland Fletcher, Sarah Klassen, Christophe Pottier and Pelle Wijker

Angkor's temple communities and the logic of its urban landscape / Scott Hawken and Sarah Klassen

Angkor as a "Cite hydraulique"? / Terry Lustig, Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Wayne Johnson

Part III. State institutions. Angkorian law and land / Tess E. Davis and Eileen Lustig

Warfare and defensive architecture in the Angkorian world / David Brotherson

Āśramas, shrines, and royal power / Chea Socheat, Julia Estève, Dominique Soutif and Edward Swenson

Education and medicine at Angkor / Chhem Rethy, Damian Evans, Chhom Kunthea , Phlong Pisith and Peter D. Sharrock

Part IV. Economies. Angkor's economy : implications of the transfer of wealth / Eileen Lustig, Aedeen Cremin and Terry Lustig

The temple economy of Angkor / Heng Piphal and Sachchidanand Sahai

Angkor's agrarian economy : a socio-ecological mosaic / Scott Hawken and Cristina Cobo Castillo

From quarries to temples : stone procurement, materiality, and spirituality in the Angkorian World / Christian Fischer, Federico Carò and Martin Polkinghorne

Crafting with fire : stoneware and iron pyrotechnologies in the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Ea Darith, Chhay Rachna, Yukitsugu Tabata, Phon Kaseka, Stéphanie Leroy, Yuni Sato and Armand Desbat

Food, craft, and ritual : plants from the Angkorian world / Cristina Cobo Castillo

Part V. Ideologies and realities. Gods and temples : the nature(s) of Angkorian religion /Julia Estève

Bodies of glory : the statuary of Angkor / Paul A. Lavy and Martin Polkinghorne

'Of cattle and kings' : bovines in the Angkorian world / Mitch Hendrickson, Eileen Lustig and Siyonn Sophearith

An Angkor nation? identifying the core of the Khmer Empire / Ian Lowman, Chhom Kunthea and Mitch Hendrickson

The Angkorian house / Alison K. Carter, Miriam T. Stark, Heng Piphal and Chhay Rachna

Vogue at Angkor : dress, décor and narrative drama / Gillian Green

Gender, status, and hierarchy in the age of Angkor / Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski

Part VI. After Angkor. Perspectives on the 'collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire / Damian Evans, Martin Polkinghorne, Roland Fletcher, David Brotherson, Tegan Hall, Sarah Klassen and Pelle Wijker

Uthong and Angkor : material legacies in the Chao Phraya Basin, Thailand / Pipad Krajaejun

Mainland Southeast Asia after Angkor : on the legacies of Jayavarman VII / Ashley Thompson

Early modern Cambodia and archaeology at Longvek / Martin Polkinghorne and Yuni Sato

Yama, the god closest to the Khmers / Ang Choulean

Inarguably Angkor / Penny Edwards

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 28, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Angkorian world

ISBN:

9781351128933

1351128930

9781351128940

1351128949

9781351128919

1351128914

9781351128926

1351128922

OCLC:

1355043151

Publisher Number:

19668255

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.