Society, Economics, and Politics in Pre-Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th Centuries.(Book review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Brown, Robert L. | Copyright information

Society, Economics, and Politics in Pre-Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th Centuries. By MICHAEL VICKERY. Tokyo: CENTRE FOR EAST ASIAN CULTURAL STUDIES FOR UNESCO, 1998. Pp. vii +486.

Southeast Asia offers an especially interesting arena for studying the reception of images of deities. Sometime around the fifth century A.D. Indian-related images appear in Southeast Asia. While there are a few possibilities, no images of deities can be identified with certainty in Southeast Asi...

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