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Engendering the Buddhist State - Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (Hardcover)
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Engendering the Buddhist State - Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research,
this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and
historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening
bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural
complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary analysis
of performative and representational strategies for constituting
social collectivities, largely developed at Angkor. The analysis
involves extended close readings of a wide range of cultural
artefacts including epigraphic and manuscript texts, sculpture and
ritual practices. The author proposes a critical re-evaluation of
dominant paradigms of Cambodian historiography in view of
engendering new histories, or hybrid histories, which make room for
previously absent perspectives and voices, while developing new
theoretical tools engaging with and partially derived from
"indigenous" narrative practices in the broadest sense. In this
history-making process the historical event is shown to never be
entirely separable from its aesthetic representation. Particular
attention is paid to the roles of sexual difference in such
(re)constructions of history. The book presents a theory of power
capable of accounting for the historical phenomena by which
vernacular cultures appropriate, subvert and submit to cosmopolitan
forces. It charts out a novel approach to the study of classical
Southeast Asian materials, and is of interest to students and
scholars of Asian Art, Religion and Philosophy, Buddhism and
Southeast Asian History.
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