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Cultural sites of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia

Title: Cultural sites of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia / Jacques Dumarçay and Michael Smithies.
Author: Dumarçay, Jacques.
Publication: Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Smithies, Michael, 1932-

Description

xi, 127 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm

Summary

Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. Outstanding in Cambodia is the vast complex of Angkor which the recent political settlement has again put within the reach of many. Burma has its historical equivalent in Pagan and its more recent centre at Mandalay, where the court of the last Burmese king held sway.
Thailand, formerly Siam, has an embarrassingly large choice of monumental architectural sites encompassing Chaiya in the south, Chiangsaen in the north, and Phnom Rung in the north-east, not forgetting the better known Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. Essentially, it is the religious structures which have survived and which are given prominence in this volume.
. Jacques Dumarcay and Michael Smithies have combined to bring the most important sites together in a single volume. Each is described and its salient features noted and placed in the general context of the country and the region.

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Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Burma -- 3. Thailand -- 4. Cambodia -- 5. The Organization of Space in Continental South-East Asia.

ISBN

9676530700 :

LCCN

94037075

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