Braginsky Classical Civilizations of South-East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-84886-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten

With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braginsky, Vladimir

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Religion

1. Bauddha Brahmins in Bali C. Hooykaas

2. A New Look at Sãsanavamsa V.B. Lieberman

3. The Dewartu Sotäpan: a Mon prototype of the 37 nats

Part II: History, Historical Sources

4. Tambralinga O.W. Walters

5. The Malay Founder of Medieval Malacca R.O. Winstedt

6. Malay History from Chinese Source R.O. Winstedt

7. Banten and the Dutch in 1619: six early 'pasar Malay' letters

8. North-western Cambodia in the seventh century O.W. Wolters

9. Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan E.H. Johnson

10. The Kyaikmaraw inscriptions H.L. Shorto

11. The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom H.L. Shorto

12. Collaborateur versus Abstentioniste (Tuong versus Tri): political polemic in poetic dialogu during the French acquisition of southern Vietnam J.H.C.S. Davidson

Part III: Literature and Arts

13. The story of Sudhana and Monohara: an analysis of the texts and the Borobudur reliefs Padmanabh S. Jaini

14. Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's 'undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana' E.C.G. Barrett

15. Three old Achehnese Manuscripts P. Vorrhoeve

16. The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar R. Jones

17. The Song of the Three Mons J.A. Stewart

18. Three 'immortal' Burmese songs Hla Pe, A.A. Allot and J. Okell 19. Country life in Burmese Literature C.W. Dunn, Hla Pe, J.A. Stewart

20. Mahorasop in a Thai Manörä manuscript E.H.S. Simmonds

21. New evidence on Thai shadow-play invocations E.H.S. Simmonds

Part IV: Historical Linguistics

22. A Chinese Vocabulary of Malacca Malay Words and Phrases E.D.Edwards, C.O. Blagden

23. A Chinese Vocabulary of Cham Words and Phrases E.D. Edwards, C.O. Blagden

24. Tangut or Proto-Burman G.H. Luce

25. Three Mon-Khmer word families H.L.Shorto

26. Achinese and mainland Austronesian H.L.Shorto

27. The structure of the word in Old Khmer J.M. Jacob

Über Autor(innen)

Vladimir Braginsky is Professor of Southeast Asian languages and culture at SOAS, University of London. He is a specialist on Malay and Indonesian religions, traditional and modern literatures, and comparative literature, and has published a number of books on these subjects.