Materializing Southeast Asia's Past Format: Paperback

Materializing Southeast Asia's Past contains articles in historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraph, and art history. The interpretations of art and material culture offer new understandings of classical Hindu and Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia and their relationship to the region's medieval cultures. The articles are presented under four headings, as follows: Art, religion and politics (Buddhist monuments in Java and Cambodia); Southeast Asian transformations (cultural exchange with South Asia); Technology (workmanship in art and material culture); and Southeast Asia between past and present.

Marijke J. KLOKKE is Professor of Art and Material culture of South and Southeast Asia at the Leiden University Institute of Area Studies and concurrently attached to the Ethnological Museum in Leiden.

Veronique DEGROOT is an Archaeologist attached to the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient in Jakarta.