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Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases (2024)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. (2024). Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases. Antiquity, 98(401), 1395-1495. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.129

Calls for the restitution and repatriation of cultural objects continue to escalate. High-profile cases such as the Parthenon Frieze and the Benin Bronzes dominate international news cycles and provoke fierce debate; however, less attention has been... Read More about Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases.

Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam] (2023)
Journal Article
Nguyễn Văn Quảng. (2023). Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam]. Pratu: Journal of Buddhist and Hindu Art, Architecture and Archaeology of Ancient to Premodern Southeast Asia, 2(Article 3), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040131

Trên cơ sở nghiên cứu thực địa và các kết quả nghiên cứu khảo cổ học trong thời gian gần đây, bài viết đề cập đến 8 thành lũy Champa ở các tỉnh Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế (Việt Nam). Đây được xem là vùng phía Bắc của Lâm Ấp, sau đó là Cham... Read More about Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam].

รายงานการสำรวจและขุดค้นทางโบราณคดีแหล่งโลหกรรม ในเขตลุ่มน้ำยมตอนบน กับการวิเคราะห์ตีความเกี่ยวกับกระบวนการผลิตโลหะสมัยสุโขทัย [Survey and Excavation Report on Metallurgical Sites in the Upper Yom River Basin, and an Initial Analysis of Metallurgical Production in the Sukhothai Period] (2023)
Journal Article
Theerasak, T. (2023). รายงานการสำรวจและขุดค้นทางโบราณคดีแหล่งโลหกรรม ในเขตลุ่มน้ำยมตอนบน กับการวิเคราะห์ตีความเกี่ยวกับกระบวนการผลิตโลหะสมัยสุโขทัย [Survey and Excavation Report on Metallurgical Sites in the Upper Yom River Basin, and an Initial Analysis of Metallurgical Production in the Sukhothai Period]. Pratu: Journal of Buddhist and Hindu Art, Architecture and Archaeology of Ancient to Premodern Southeast Asia, 2(Report 2), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039943

รายงานนี้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของโครงการศึกษาวิจัยพัฒนาการทางสังคมและวัฒนธรรมก่อนกำเนิดรัฐสุโขทัย ดำเนินงานโดยสำนักศิลปากรที่ 6 สุโขทัย โดยมีประเด็นเรื่องพัฒนาการด้านโลหกรรมเป็นคำถามสำคัญหนึ่งของงานวิจัย เนื่องจากงานศิลปกรรมสำริดในสมัยสุโขทัยเป็นหลักฐานสำคัญ... Read More about รายงานการสำรวจและขุดค้นทางโบราณคดีแหล่งโลหกรรม ในเขตลุ่มน้ำยมตอนบน กับการวิเคราะห์ตีความเกี่ยวกับกระบวนการผลิตโลหะสมัยสุโขทัย [Survey and Excavation Report on Metallurgical Sites in the Upper Yom River Basin, and an Initial Analysis of Metallurgical Production in the Sukhothai Period].

Expecting the Unexpected: New Archaeological Finds at the Shwedagon Pagoda [မျှော်မှန်းမထားသည်များအတွက်ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်ထားပါ – ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်မှ အသစ်တွေ့ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနအထောက်အထားများ] (2023)
Journal Article
Saw, T. L. (2023). Expecting the Unexpected: New Archaeological Finds at the Shwedagon Pagoda [မျှော်မှန်းမထားသည်များအတွက်ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်ထားပါ – ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်မှ အသစ်တွေ့ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနအထောက်အထားများ]. Pratu (London), 2(Report 1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039642

The Shwedagon Pagoda situated on Singuttara Hill in the centre of Yangon, is traditionally believed to have existed during the lifetime of the Buddha. Some archaeological remnants of earlier periods have occasionally been found during renovation and... Read More about Expecting the Unexpected: New Archaeological Finds at the Shwedagon Pagoda [မျှော်မှန်းမထားသည်များအတွက်ကြိုတင်ပြင်ဆင်ထားပါ – ရွှေတိဂုံစေတီတော်မှ အသစ်တွေ့ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနအထောက်အထားများ].

Pemulangan Benda Cagar Budaya dan Identitas Nasional pada Era Pascakolonial di Indonesia (2023)
Journal Article
Sapardan, W. (2023). Pemulangan Benda Cagar Budaya dan Identitas Nasional pada Era Pascakolonial di Indonesia [The Return of Cultural Property and National Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia]. Pratu: Journal of Buddhist and Hindu Art, Architecture and Archaeology of Ancient to Premodern Southeast Asia, 2(Article 2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039539

Dalam konteks pascakolonial, pemulangan benda cagar budaya seringkali dikaitkan dengan penguatan identitas budaya dan nasional dari masyarakat bekas wilayah jajahan. Dengan fokus utama pada kehidupan sebuah objek yaitu arca Prajñāpāramitā, makalah in... Read More about Pemulangan Benda Cagar Budaya dan Identitas Nasional pada Era Pascakolonial di Indonesia.

Recursion, Remembering and Re-telling Time in the Stupas of Pagan [ပုဂံဘုရားပုထိုးများအကြောင်း ထပ်တလဲလဲ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုခြင်း၊ အမှတ်ရခြင်းနှင့် အချိန်အား ပြန်ပြောင်းပြောဆိုခြင်း] (2023)
Journal Article
Yeo, M. S. E. (2023). Recursion, Remembering and Re-telling Time in the Stupas of Pagan [ပုဂံဘုရားပုထိုးများအကြောင်း ထပ်တလဲလဲ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုခြင်း၊ အမှတ်ရခြင်းနှင့် အချိန်အား ပြန်ပြောင်းပြောဆိုခြင်း]. Pratu (London), 2(Article 1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00039538

This article examines how time is recursively presented and structured by the stupas of Pagan to form a chronological narrative, and to what purpose. Recursion — the reproduction of something within itself in a potentially infinite pattern — is seen... Read More about Recursion, Remembering and Re-telling Time in the Stupas of Pagan [ပုဂံဘုရားပုထိုးများအကြောင်း ထပ်တလဲလဲ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုခြင်း၊ အမှတ်ရခြင်းနှင့် အချိန်အား ပြန်ပြောင်းပြောဆိုခြင်း].

Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896 (2022)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2022). Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 32(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-667

The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East... Read More about Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896.

A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow (2022)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2022). A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow. Jaina studies, 17, 22-27. https://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies/newsletter/

It is an open question when and where Jainas first started to preserve and venerate bone relics of prominent mendicants in purpose-built stūpas in spite of their doctrinal rejection of this practice. A.A. Führer’s (1892) “List of accessions to the Lu... Read More about A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow.

Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2022). Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia. In J. Carbine, & E. Davis (Eds.), Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion (pp. 43-65). University Of Hawai'i Press.

This paper discusses the development of the sīmā stone tradition from the earliest archaeological evidence in what are today the areas of Northeast Thailand and Central Laos to its wider distribution across Mainland Southeast Asia. The earliest subst... Read More about Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia.

Shwezigon Pagoda (2022)
Book Chapter
Tan, H. (2022). Shwezigon Pagoda. In P. L. Bonfitto (Ed.), World Architecture and Society: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center (pp. 643-648). ABC-CLIO.

Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī in Likely Tantric Buddhist Context from the Northern Indian Subcontinent to 11th-Century Bali [Durga Mahiṣāsuramardinī dalam konteks agama Buddha Tantrayana dari Subkontinen India Utara dan Bali pada abad ke-11] (2020)
Journal Article
Calo, A. (2020). Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī in Likely Tantric Buddhist Context from the Northern Indian Subcontinent to 11th-Century Bali [Durga Mahiṣāsuramardinī dalam konteks agama Buddha Tantrayana dari Subkontinen India Utara dan Bali pada abad ke-11]. Pratu (London), 1(3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032820

This study examines the significance of the originally Hindu goddess Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī (Durgā slaying the buffalo demon) in Tantric Buddhist temple contexts of the 8th–11th century in Afghanistan and northeastern India, and 11th-century Bali. T... Read More about Durgā Mahiṣāsuramardinī in Likely Tantric Buddhist Context from the Northern Indian Subcontinent to 11th-Century Bali [Durga Mahiṣāsuramardinī dalam konteks agama Buddha Tantrayana dari Subkontinen India Utara dan Bali pada abad ke-11].

Nine Deities Panel in Ancient Cambodia [ផ្ទាំងចម្លាក់ទេពប្រាំបួនអង្គក្នុងអារ្យធម៌ខ្មែរបុរាណ] (2020)
Journal Article
Chhum, M. (2020). Nine Deities Panel in Ancient Cambodia [ផ្ទាំងចម្លាក់ទេពប្រាំបួនអង្គក្នុងអារ្យធម៌ខ្មែរបុរាណ]. Pratu: Journal of Buddhist and Hindu Art, Architecture and Archaeology of Ancient to Premodern Southeast Asia, 1(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032560

The nine deities panel has been found in large numbers and existed with several configurations of deities in ancient Cambodia. The oldest known example dates from the pre-Angkorian period and shows the navagrahas (nine celestial bodies) in a standing... Read More about Nine Deities Panel in Ancient Cambodia [ផ្ទាំងចម្លាក់ទេពប្រាំបួនអង្គក្នុងអារ្យធម៌ខ្មែរបុរាណ].

Kingship and Procreation in a Pyu Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin Stone Relief from Śrīkṣetra [သရေခေတ္တရာရှိ ဗိဿနိုး အနန္တသာရင် ကျောက်စစ်ရုပ်တု၏ မင်းရိုက်ရာ နှင့် စည်ပင်ပြန့်ပွါးခြင်း] (2020)
Journal Article
Cheong, C. (2020). Kingship and Procreation in a Pyu Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin Stone Relief from Śrīkṣetra [သရေခေတ္တရာရှိ ဗိဿနိုး အနန္တသာရင် ကျောက်စစ်ရုပ်တု၏ မင်းရိုက်ရာ နှင့် စည်ပင်ပြန့်ပွါးခြင်း]. Pratu (London), 1(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032559

This paper examines closely a stone relief carving found in 1919 at the Pyu city of Śrīkṣetra in Myanmar, which appears to be an unusual variant of the Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin iconographic type — the lotus stem germinating from the reclining Viṣṇu’s navel... Read More about Kingship and Procreation in a Pyu Viṣṇu Anantaśāyin Stone Relief from Śrīkṣetra [သရေခေတ္တရာရှိ ဗိဿနိုး အနန္တသာရင် ကျောက်စစ်ရုပ်တု၏ မင်းရိုက်ရာ နှင့် စည်ပင်ပြန့်ပွါးခြင်း].

Riddles of the Rock-Carved Hindu and Jaina Sculptures and Inscriptions at Rakhetrā (2019)
Journal Article
Flügel, P., Wright, J. C., Balogh, D., Mevissen, G., & Willis, M. (2019). Riddles of the Rock-Carved Hindu and Jaina Sculptures and Inscriptions at Rakhetrā. Jaina studies, 14, 24-30. https://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies/newsletter/file139246.pdf

The article presents new evidence on the archaeological site of Rakhetrā (M.P.), with particular attention to the rock-carved Hindu and Jaina sculptures and inscriptions. Photos of the three 10th, 15th and 17th century inscriptions on site are publis... Read More about Riddles of the Rock-Carved Hindu and Jaina Sculptures and Inscriptions at Rakhetrā.

Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018) (2018)
Digital Artefact
Flügel, P., Muzaffar, A., & Rana, A. M. (2018, January 1). Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018) [Website]. Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS.

In and after 1947, almost the entire, already diminished, Jain community migrated out of newly born Pakistan leaving much of its tangible religious and cultural heritage unprotected while the legacy in form of scriptures, temples, historical monument... Read More about Photographs from the Exploratory Survey of the Jaina Heritage in Pakistan (2018).

The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds (2017)
Book
P. Basu. (Ed.). (2017). The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474264792

We habitually categorize the world in binary logics of ‘animate’ and ‘inanimate’, ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’, ‘self’ and ‘other’, ‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’. The Inbetweenness of Things rejects such Western classificatory traditions – which tend... Read More about The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds.

Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development (2016)
Book
A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou, & B. Daley. (Eds.). (2016). Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development. Imperial House Publishers.

We build on previous technological developments in CAAD by looking into parametric design exploration and the development of the concept of parametricism. We use the phenomenological backdrop to account for our physical experiences and encounters as... Read More about Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development.

Marine Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Innovation and Adaptation (2012)
Book
H. Tan. (Ed.). (2012). Marine Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Innovation and Adaptation. Asian Civilisations Museum. https://www.academia.edu/44396551/Maritime_Archaeology_in_Southeast_Asia_Innovation_and_Adaptation

Marine Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Adaptation and Innovation presents issues facing maritime archaeology in the region. Essays discuss the importance of the work for understanding the shared history of economic and cultural exchange; case studies... Read More about Marine Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Innovation and Adaptation.