Place,Power and People: Temple and City in Southeast Asia as a Cultural Region

The Buddhist arts of Myanmar,drawing in varied concepts of direction and boundary to sacred place,have developed a richly localized vocabulary over periods of both amalgamation and conflict. The late nineteenth century CE was one of the latter,when at the end of the Second Anglo-Burmese War British troops occupied the highly venerated Shwedagon pagoda. Nonetheless,or perhaps as a result,patronage flourished and new donations embellished religious spaces. In their contrasting worldviews and styles,the arts of this period illustrate the role of material culture in both reflecting and re-redefining the 'local' within wider processes of social change.

Disciplines : Architecture,Asie du Sud-Est
Mots-clés : lieux de culte,art bouddhique,Myanmar
Type de document : image en mouvement
Type de ressource : lecture
Niveau : higher education
Auteurs ou éditeurs : Richard A. O'Connor,EFEO Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient