Political history of Angkor
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... Collapse and Regeneration from Funan to Angkor The history of the Khmer civilization is characterized by cycles of fragmen-tation, collapse, and reorganization. ... When the Thai army sacked the capital of Angkor in ad 1432, they... more
Cultural heritage recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has become the gold standard for the heritage industry. Many nations strive to have tangible, intangible and natural heritage... more
An appreciation of the use of power by the Angkorian Empire is gained through analysing aggregated spatial and temporal data from pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period inscriptions. This paper argues that the Khmer empire depended to a... more
*ce mémoire s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un travail de recherche que mon directeur, M. Éric Bourdonneau, a mené et auquel j’ai simplement été amenée à participer. Ce travail vise à explorer les galeries extérieures occidentales du Bayon où... more
Il grande parco di Angkor, collocato nel cuore della foresta cambogiana, con la sua estensione di oltre 200 kmq, è probabilmente la più grande area archeologica al mondo. Attualmente molti progetti internazionali si occupano del restauro... more
Chinese annals and indigenous inscriptions document a succession of three early states in the lower Mekong basin during the first millennium A.D. The earliest (“Funan”) emerged in the Mekong delta; the next (“Chenla”) materialized c. 250... more
In 1988 and 1989 Keyes led delegations sponsored by the Joint Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Southeast Asia to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to seek to re-open scholarly relations with... more
The diary of Henri Mouhot (1826–1861), a little known French naturalist, was published posthumously in 1863. Serialised in Le Tour du Monde, a popular French magazine devoted to expeditions abroad, it had been rewritten by a ghostwriter... more
This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early... more
This entry reviews the history of archaeological (and, by extension, art historical) research in what was first part of French Indochina, and is now the Kingdom of Cambodia. It reviews the impact of 19th-century expeditions on European... more
The cyclical quality of ancient states (Adams 1988; Feinman 1998; Marcus 1998; Yoffee 1988b) is abundantly evident in mainland Southeast Asia, where multipleand overlapping histories of collapse and regeneration characterized the region... more
The rapid development of early cities as ceremonial and economic centers affected their hinterlands profoundly. The construction of the city and of the sacred precinct, which required unprecedented amounts of labor, were themselves... more
Das ist ein Buch. ISBN: 978-953-7036-76-8 ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Die Sanskrit-Kultur Kambodschas und Indiens im Lichte der Epigraphik/ In der Einleitung der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Grundbegriffe, auf denen die Arbeit beruht, erklärt... more