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 worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Angkor (Extinct city)--History.

Angkor (Extinct city).

Angkor (Extinct city)--Civilization.

Cambodia--Antiquities.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (686 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2023]

Language Note:

English

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:

Timeline

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

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

An environmental history of Angkor: beginning to end / Dan Penny &Tegan Hall

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

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

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

The early Angkor capitals / 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 & Aedeen Cremin

Forests, palms and paddy fields: the plant ecology of Angkor / Tegan Hall & 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 & Pelle Wijker

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

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

Angkorian law and land / Tess E. Davis & Eileen Lustig

Warfare and defensive architecture in the Angkorian world / David Brotherson

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

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

Angkor's economy: implications of the transfer of wealth / Eileen Lustig, Aedeen Cremin & Terry Lustig

The temple economy of Angkor / Heng Piphal & Sachchidanand Sahai

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

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

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

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

Gods and temples: the nature(s) of Angkorian religion /Julia Estève

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

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

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

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

Vogue at Angkor: Dress, Décor and Narrative Drama / Gillian Green

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

Perspectives on the 'collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire / Damian Evans, Martin Polkinghorne, Roland Fletcher, David Brotherson, Tegan Hall, Sarah Klassen & 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 & Yuni Sato

Yama, the god closest to the Khmers / Ang Choulean

Inarguably Angkor / Penny Edwards

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351128926

1351128922

9781351128940

1351128949

9781351128933

1351128930

OCLC:

1375296258