This volume presents papers from a unique two-day conference organized in London in 2000 by The British Museum and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The academic study of Burma, especially the study of its cultural history, has been very largely ignored over the last fifty years. The conference papers published here together form a major contribution towards the redress of that neglect. Current research was presented by scholars from the USA, Germany, France, Australia and the UK. Topics ...
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This volume presents papers from a unique two-day conference organized in London in 2000 by The British Museum and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The academic study of Burma, especially the study of its cultural history, has been very largely ignored over the last fifty years. The conference papers published here together form a major contribution towards the redress of that neglect. Current research was presented by scholars from the USA, Germany, France, Australia and the UK. Topics covered are prehistory, architecture (monastic and secular), the cult of the nats, lacquer, illustrated manuscripts, mural paintings, sculpture, textiles and the Ferrars Archive of Burma photographs at the Royal Geographical Society. Contents: - Introduction by Alexandro Green and T. Richard Blurton - Prehistoric grave goods from the Chindwin and Samon River regions by U Nyunt Han, U Win Maung (Tanpawady) and Elizabeth Moore - Digging for myths: archaeological excavations and surveys of the legendary nineteen founding villages of Pagan by Bob Hudson, U Nyein Lwin and U Win Maung (Tanpawady) - Offering up a rare jewel: Buddhist merit-making and votive tablets in early Burma by John Guy - A Burma origin for the Sukhothai Walking Buddha by Pamela Gutman - Relationships between Buddhist texts and images of the Enlightenment during the Early Pagan Period by Charlotte Galloway - Bronze sculptures from Burma in the British Museum by T. Richard Blurton - Narrative modes in late seventeenth to early nineteenth century Burmese wall paintings by Alexandra Green - Burmese cosmological manuscripts by Patricia Herbert - 'Royal images' in their'palaces': the place of the statues in the cult of the 37 nats by Benedicte Brac de la Perriere - Problems and prosecpets for the preservation of wooden monasteries in Burma by Sylvia Fraser-Lu - The Kachin Manau and Manau Shadung: the development of an ethno-cultural symbol in Burma by Mandy Sodan - Court dress, politics and ethnicity in the Shan states by Susan Conway - Diversity, identity and modernity in exile: 'traditional' Karenni clothing by Sandra Dudley - Burmese arts and crafts: the Scherman collection in the Ethnographical Museum, Munich by Uta Weigelt - Photographs by Max and Bertha Ferrars by Joanna Scadden
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