Monastery, Monument, Museum: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory 9780824866099

Ranging across the longue durée of Thailand’s history, Monastery, Monument, Museum is an eminently readable and original

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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

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