Research Catalog

Title

Old myths and new approaches : interpreting ancient religious sites in Southeast Asia / edited by Alexandra Haendel.

Publication

[Clayton, Vic.] : Monash University Publishing, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Haendel, Alexandra.

Description

x, 301 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Monash Asia series

Alternative Title

Interpreting ancient religious sites in Southeast Asia

Subject

• Mythology, Southeast Asian > Congresses
• Archaeology and religion > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Temples > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Southeast Asia > Antiquities > Congresses
• Southeast Asia > Religion > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Based on a conference--p. [ix].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301).

Contents

• Introduction / Marika Vicziany -- pt. 1. Nature and humans : adapting to the environment. Introduction to part one / Alexandra Haendel -- General archaeological aspects and speculations concerning the red soil region east of the Mekong River in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia / Heng Sophady -- Beyond the temples : Angkor and its territory / Christophe Pottier -- Mysteries of Angkor revealed : hydrology and the siting of Angkor / Bob Acker -- The dynamics of Angkor and its landscape : issues of scale, non-correspondence and outcome / Roland Fletcher & Damian Evans -- Religious architecture and irrigation in the plain of Phan Rang / William A. Southworth -- Connecting the dots : investigating transportation between the temple complexes of the medieval Khmer (9th-14th centuries CE) / Mitch Hendrickson -- Journeys and landscapes : some preliminary remarks on ancient Javanese perceptions of the environment / Peter Worsley -- pt. 2. Sites and groups of buildings. Introduction to part two / David Chandler -- Temples and landscape in south Central Java / Véronique Degroot -- Mountains, forests and water : a new approach to the study of the Javanese temple complex Sukuh / Jo Grimmond -- Life among the ruins : habitation sites of Trowulan / John Miksic -- Speculation on landscape use in and around Sambor Prei Kuk / Heng Piphal
• Pt. 3. Living the sites : the communities around. Introduction to part three / Stuart Robson -- Incorporating the periphery : the classical temples of Southeast Asia and their social context / Alexandra Haendel -- Through the visualisation lens : temple models and simulated context in a virtual Angkor / Tom Chandler & Martin Polkinghorne -- Graves, trees and powerful spirits as archaeological indicators of sacred spaces / Angelo Andrea Di Castro -- Imagery of the temple in Old Javanese poetry / Stuart Robson -- Mỹ Sơn and Pô Nagar Nha Trang sancturaries and the cosmological dualist cult of the Champa kingdom / Trần Kỳ Phủơng & Rie Nakamura.

ISBN

• 1921867280 (pbk.)
• 9781921867286 (pbk.)

OCLC

795177638

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library