Monastery, Monument, Museum : : Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory /

Monastery, Monument, Museum : : Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory / / Maurizio Peleggi.

Ranging across the longue durée of Thailand's history, Monastery, Monument, Museum is an eminently readable and original contribution to the study of the kingdom's art and culture. Eschewing issues of dating, style, and iconography, historian Maurizio Peleggi addresses distinct types of ar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Peleggi, Maurizio,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 9 color, 27 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Romanization
  • Introduction
  • PART I: SACRED GEOGRAPHIES
  • 1. Buddhist Landscape and Cultural Memory
  • 2. Itinerant Icons of the Theravada Ecumene
  • 3. The Place of the Other in Temple Art
  • PART II: ANTIQUITIES, MUSEUMS, AND NATIONAL HISTORY
  • 4. Kings and Antiquarians
  • 5. A Museum and an Art History for the Thai Nation
  • 6. Whose Prehistory? Thailand before the Thais
  • PART III: DISCORDANT MNEMOSCAPES
  • 7. Monumental Failures
  • 8. Rubbing the Past into the Present
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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