ISBN:
0824828860
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 433 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
DDC:
959.1
Keywords:
Legends
;
Burma Historiography
;
Burma History To 1824
;
Mon State (Burma) History
;
Birma
;
Pyu
;
Legende
;
Geschichte Anfänge-1824
;
Birma
;
Geschichtsschreibung
Abstract:
The Py millennium -- Rmaññadesa : an imagined polity -- Thatôn (Sudhuim) : an imagined center -- The conquest of Thatôn : an imagined event -- The conquest of Thatôn as allegory -- The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script -- The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history -- The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Pagán temple -- The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend -- The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "down-trodden Talaing" -- Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm
Description / Table of Contents:
The Py millennium -- Rmaññadesa : an imagined polity -- Thatôn (Sudhuim) : an imagined center -- The conquest of Thatôn : an imagined event -- The conquest of Thatôn as allegory -- The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script -- The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history -- The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Pagán temple -- The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend -- The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "down-trodden Talaing" -- Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-423) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029695.html
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