BOOKS - Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cul...
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Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia: Reflections on Cross-Cultural Exchange
Author: Pierre-Yves Manguin
Year: September 23, 2011
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
Year: September 23, 2011
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
This book takes stock of the results of some two decades of intensive archaeological research carried out on both sides of the Bay of Bengal, in combination with renewed approaches to textual sources and to art history. To improve our understanding of the trans-cultural process commonly referred to as Indianisation, it brings together specialists of both India and Southeast Asia, in a fertile inter-disciplinary confrontation. Most of the essays reappraise the millennium-long historiographic no-man's land during which exchanges between the two shores of the Bay of Bengal led, among other processes, to the Indianisation of those parts of the region that straddled the main routes of exchange. Some essays follow up these processes into better known and "classical and " times or even into modern times, showing that the localisation process of Indian themes has long remained at work, allowing local societies to produce their own social space and express their own ethos.