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The Angkorian World: Polity and Cosmos in Southeast Asia

March 5, 2022 @ 1:30 pm PST Pacific Time

University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall
3380 N. 13th Street
Tacoma, WA 98416 United States


AIA Society: Puget Sound

Lecturer: Miriam Stark

Angkor’s first great king, Jayavarman II, established Cambodia’ Angkorian state on the banks of the Tonle Sap in 802 CE and built his first capital, Mahendraparvata, on the slope of the nearby Kulen mountains. What followed were six centuries of political competition, warfare, and imperial rule by Angkor’s kings. Like rulers of other ancient states, Khmer kings built vast stone monuments to honor their predecessors and gods that still stand today. A century of scholarly research on the Khmer empire’s achievements has shed light on the scale and nature of premodern Southeast Asia’s most influential polity; it has also shaped political agenda in unanticipated ways. This lecture introduces the Angkorian world, from its temples to its ceramics, and examines how cosmology and statecraft created Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and the world’s largest preindustrial city.

 

Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic:

Coe, Michael D. and Damian Evans. 2018. Angkor and the Khmer Civilization. Thames and Hudson.

Jacques, Claude and Philippe Lafond. 2007. The Khmer Empire: Cities and Sanctuaries from the 5th to 13th Century.  River Books, Bangkok.

Murphy , Stephen and McCullough, Theresa. Ed. 2018. Angkor: Exploring Cambodia’s Sacred City.  Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

Best website: Virtual Angkor https://www.virtualangkor.com/

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Date:
March 5, 2022
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1:30 pm PST
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University of Puget Sound, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall
3380 N. 13th Street
Tacoma, WA 98416 United States
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