Table of contents : 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