Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration and typographical conventions -- Introduction -- Precis 1: the global in/and the local -- Precis 2: territory, sovereignty and sexual difference -- Precis 3...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Florence
Taylor and Francis
2016
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In: | Year: 2016 |
Series/Journal: | Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cambodia
/ Angkor
/ Culture
/ Gender-specific role
/ Theravada
/ Historiography
B Cambodia / Theravada / Spring / Ritual / Sculpture |
Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
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Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Thompson, Ashley: Engendering the Buddhist State : Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor. - Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2016 |
Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration and typographical conventions -- Introduction -- Precis 1: the global in/and the local -- Precis 2: territory, sovereignty and sexual difference -- Precis 3: identity, language, art -- 1 Textual foundations: on Sdok Kak Thom -- Sadāśiva's history -- An indispensible appendage -- Linguistic economies of scale -- Hyperglossia and the Devarāja -- Of gods and kings -- The lotus without roots -- Sovereignty redoubled -- The institution at its source Empire in the empirical matrix -- 2 Sculptural foundations: on the liṅga and yoni -- Khôra, yoni and the great Earth -- Reckoning heritage -- Representing the unrepresentable -- The impossible link -- 3 Bodily remains -- Generating history -- Histories of possession -- Making history: Coedès and Indradevī -- 4 The fate of the liṅga-yoni ensemble -- The bralịṅ: linguistic and ritual practice -- The babil -- The emergence of vernacular literature -- Conclusion: engendering the cosmopolis -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
ISBN: | 0415677726 |