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‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants (2023)
Journal Article
Bes, L., & Branfoot, C. (2024). ‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 34(2), 325-359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186323000329

On Rameshvaram island in the south-east corner of India lies one of Hinduism's most important temples—the Rāmanāthasvāmi, one of the four dhams (‘holy abodes’) and the site of two Śiva-liṅgas said to have been consecrated by Rāma himself. A temple ha... Read More about ‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History (2023)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2023). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History. Berliner indologische Studien, 26,

The concluding part of the essay Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhadeśa II presents illustrated sections on Indora, Māmoṃ, Thūbana, Bahorībanda, Seroṃna, Pacarāī, Golākoṭa, Mahebā and Bajarañgagaṛha, Devagaṛha and Būṛhī Canderī. It introduces the method of f... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.

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 (London), 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].

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].

The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J., Mulugeta, D., Melake-Selam, A., & Tomkinson, J. (2022). The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16(1), 2 -24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2068234

In this article, we attempt to understand the persistence of the ‘great tradition’ in describing what the state means to Ethiopians. We do this by examining stories about history, told by and about Ethiopia’s architecture. Within these stories we fin... Read More about The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia.

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 (643-648). ABC-CLIO

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory (2021)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2021). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory. Berliner indologische Studien, 25, 213-308

In Jaina Studies, the articulation between lived religion, cultural memory, and the cultural unconscious remains largely unexamined. The biographies of “founding figures” are obscure, and very little can be said about the origins of key texts and fra... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory.

Revenons, Revenants: Mémoires d’Angkor (2021)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2021). Revenons, Revenants: Mémoires d’Angkor. In J. Thach, E. Bourdonneau, & G. Mikaelian (Eds.), Temps et Temporalités khmères : de près, de loin, entre îles et péninsules (345 -375). Peter Lang

Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2020)
Thesis
Tan, H. Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gifts have been accumulated, stored and displayed at sacred sites in Myanmar for millennia as they have elsewhere within the Buddhist world. This thesis is the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon known as the ‘pagoda museum’ that existed since at... Read More about Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar.

A Blessing for the Land: The Architecture Art and History of a Buddhist Convent in Mustang Nepal (2018)
Book
Harrison, J., Luczanits, C., Ramble, C., & Drandul, N. (Eds.). (2018). A Blessing for the Land: The Architecture Art and History of a Buddhist Convent in Mustang Nepal. Vajra Books

In Nepal’s Mustang District, on the right bank of the Kali Gandaki river facing the large settlement of Tshug (Chusang), is a low hill known as Gönpa Gang, the “convent ridge.” Standing on the ridge are the remains of a Buddhist site, Künzang Chöling... Read More about A Blessing for the Land: The Architecture Art and History of a Buddhist Convent in Mustang Nepal.

The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
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El-Kazaz, S., Mazur, K., Reynolds, N., Crane, S., & Menoret, P. (2017). The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. Hoboken, NJ

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development (2016)
Book
Al-Attili, A., Karandinou, A., Daley, B., Abdelsabour, I., Farouk, H., Ahmed, M. H., Ahmed, Z. Y., Salet, T. A., Wolfs, R. J., Bos, F. P., Al Shiekh, B., Al-Badry, S., Cheng, C., Lundberg, S., Berdos, G., Al-Jokhadar, A., Jabi, W., Al-Matarneh, R., Fethi, I., Alacam, S., …Gerber, D. J. (2016). A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou, & B. Daley (Eds.). 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.

The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon (2015)
Journal Article
Branfoot, C. (2015). The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon. Ars orientalis, 45, 78-112

The gopura is a tall pyramidal temple gateway that has been a distinctive feature of South Indian religious architecture for the past millennium. This essay examines the circumstances under which the gopura evolved within the Tamil country during the... Read More about The Tamil gopura: from temple gateway to global icon.