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Presenting both the need for - and difficulty of - introducing
effective cultural resource management (CRM) in the region,
'Rethinking Cultural Resource Management' in Southeast Asia
explores the challenges facing efforts to protect Southeast Asia's
indigenous cultures and archaeological sites from the ravages of
tourism and economic development. Recognising the inapplicability
of Euro-American solutions to this part of the world, the essays of
this volume investigate their own set of region-specific CRM
strategies, and acknowledge both the necessity and possibility of
mediating between the conflicting interests of short-term
profitability and long-term sustainability.
The archaeological site of Bagan and the kingdom which bore its
name contains one of the greatest concentrations of ancient
architecture and art in Asia. Much of what is visible today
consists of ruins of Buddhist monasteries. While these monuments
are a major tourist attraction, recent advances in archaeology and
textual history have added considerable new understanding of this
kingdom, which flourished between the 11th and 14th centuries.
Bagan was not an isolated monastic site; its inhabitants
participated actively in networks of Buddhist religious activity
and commerce, abetted by the sites location near the junction where
South Asia, China and Southeast Asia meet. This volume presents the
result of recent research by scholars from around the world,
including indigenous Myanmar people, whose work deserves to be
known among the international community. The perspective on
Myanmar's role as an integral part of the intellectual, artistic
and economic framework found in this volume yields a glimpse of new
themes which future studies of Asian history will no doubt explore.
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Buddhist Tourism in Asia (Hardcover)
Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe; Contributions by David Geary, John Marston, …
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R2,315
Discovery Miles 23 150
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist
tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business
corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings
of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies,
anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious
monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socio-economic
and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that
offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a
Buddhist studies' perspective, early chapters discuss the ways
Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to
the religion. Case studies highlight Buddhist peace in India,
Buddhist heavens and hells in Singapore, Thai temple space, and the
future Buddha Maitreya in China. Buddhist tourism's connections to
the state, market, and new technologies are explored in chapters on
Indian package tours for pilgrims, thematic Buddhist tourism in
Cambodia, the technological innovations of Buddhist temples in
China, and the promotion of pilgrimage sites in Japan. Contributors
then situate the financial concerns of Chinese temples, speed
dating in temples in Japan, and the diffuse and pervasive nature of
Buddhism for tourism promotion in Ladakh, India. How have tourist
routes, groups, sites, and practices associated with Buddhism come
to be possible and what are the effects? In what ways do travelers
derive meaning from Buddhist places? How do Buddhist sites fortify
national, cultural, or religious identities? The comparative
research in South, Southeast, and East Asia presented here draws
attention to the intertwining of the sacred and the financial and
how local and national sites are situated within global networks.
Together these findings generate a compelling comparative
investigation of Buddhist spaces, identities, and practices.
Anyone who has seen the stunning ruins at Angkor, Bagan, and
Barabudur will readily understand why Southeast Asia is the host of
so many United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization World Heritage Sites. As beautiful as the spiraling
towers, intricate carvings, and delicate bas-reliefs adorning these
monuments are, however, they just barely scratch the surface of the
immense historical and cultural heritage of the region. Covering
the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam during
the period from the first to the fifteenth century, The A to Z of
Ancient Southeast Asia helps us comprehend the vast and complex
history of the region through a chronology, a glossary, a
bibliography, an introduction, appendixes, maps, photographs,
diagrams, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on
the major (and many minor) sites, the more significant historical
figures, the kingdoms they ruled over, the economic and social
relations between them, and the artistic, cultural, and religious
context.
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Buddhist Tourism in Asia (Paperback)
Courtney Bruntz, Brooke Schedneck; Series edited by Mark Michael Rowe; Contributions by David Geary, John Marston, …
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R924
Discovery Miles 9 240
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This innovative collaborative work-the first to focus on Buddhist
tourism-explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business
corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings
of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies,
anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious
monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic
and cultural trends in the region. Following an introduction that
offers the first theoretical understanding of tourism from a
Buddhist studies' perspective, early chapters discuss the ways
Buddhists and non-Buddhists imagine concepts and places related to
the religion. Case studies highlight Buddhist peace in India,
Buddhist heavens and hells in Singapore, Thai temple space, and the
future Buddha Maitreya in China. Buddhist tourism's connections to
the state, market, and new technologies are explored in chapters on
Indian package tours for pilgrims, thematic Buddhist tourism in
Cambodia, the technological innovations of Buddhist temples in
China, and the promotion of pilgrimage sites in Japan. Contributors
then situate the financial concerns of Chinese temples, speed
dating in temples in Japan, and the diffuse and pervasive nature of
Buddhism for tourism promotion in Ladakh, India. How have tourist
routes, groups, sites, and practices associated with Buddhism come
to be possible and what are the effects? In what ways do travelers
derive meaning from Buddhist places? How do Buddhist sites fortify
national, cultural, or religious identities? The comparative
research in South, Southeast, and East Asia presented here draws
attention to the intertwining of the sacred and the financial and
how local and national sites are situated within global networks.
Together these findings generate a compelling comparative
investigation of Buddhist spaces, identities, and practices.
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