Classical civilisations of South East Asia : an anthology of articles published in The bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / / Compiled and introduced by Vladimir Braginsky

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824486303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-84886-X; 1-315-02867-0; 1-136-84879-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (553 p.)
• Classificazione: 18.90; 18.93; 15.75
• Altri autori (Persone): BraginskiiV. I
• Disciplina: 959
• Soggetti: Southeast Asia Civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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 analysis 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; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.