| Description |
1 online resource (553 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; RELIGION; 1. Bauddha brahmins in Bali; 2. A new look at Sāsanavamsa; 3. The dewatau sotäpn: a Mon prototype of the 37 nats; HISTORY, HISTORICAL SOURCES; 4. Tambralinga; 5. The Malay founder of medieval Malacca; 6. Malay history from Chinese sources; 7. Banten and the Dutch in 1619: six early 'pasar Malay' letters; 8. North-western Cambodia in the seventh century; 9. Some Sanskrit inscriptions of Arakan; 10. The Kyaikmaraw inscriptions; 11. The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom |
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12. Collaborateur versus Abstentioniste (Tuong versus Tri): political polemic in poetic dialogue during the French acquisition of southern Viet-NamLITERATURE AND ARTS; 13. The story of Sudhana and Manoharä: an anlysis of the texts and the Borobudur reliefs; 14. Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's 'undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana'; 15. Three old Achehnese manuscripts; 16. The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar; 17. The Song of the Three Mons; 18. Three 'immortal' Burmese songs; 19. Country life in Burmese literature |
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20. Mahörasop in a Thai Manörä manuscript21. New evidence on Thai shadow-play invocations; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; 22. A Chinese vocabulary of Malacca Malay words and phrases; 23. A Chinese vocabulary of Cham words and phrases; 24. Tangut or Proto-Burman; 25. Three Mon-Khmer word families; 26. Achinese and mainland Austronesian; 27. The structure of the word in Old Khmer; INDEX; APPENDIX 1 Briefly about the authors; APPENDIX 2 Articles and notes on South East Asia published in BSOAS in 1918-1990 |
| Summary |
With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008628
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136848797 |
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1136848797 |
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