Monastery, monument, museum : sites and artifacts of Thai cultural memory /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peleggi, Maurizio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Art, Thai.
Art and society > Thailand.
Buddhist art > Thailand.
Monuments > Thailand.
Collective memory > Thailand.
Art thaïlandais.
Art et société > Thaïlande.
Art bouddhique > Thaïlande.
Monuments > Thaïlande.
Mémoire collective > Thaïlande.
ART > History > General.
ART > Museum Studies.
Antiquities.
Art and society.
Buddhist art.
Collective memory.
Monuments.
Thailand > Antiquities.
Thailand.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • 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
  • Plates
  • About the Author.

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