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Angkor Wat - A Transcultural History of Heritage
Volume 1: Angkor in France. From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions. Volume 2: Angkor in Cambodia. From Jungle Find to Global Icon1. Aufl.
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CHF 162.25 |
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| Verlag: | De Gruyter |
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| Veröffentl.: | 16.12.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783110335842 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 1169 |
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<p>This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 1</strong> (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 2</strong> (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. </p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.</strong> </p>
<p><strong>Volume 1</strong> (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 2</strong> (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. </p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.</strong> </p>
<p>This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 1</strong> (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 2</strong> (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. </p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.</strong> </p>
<p><strong>Volume 1</strong> (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. </p>
<p><strong>Volume 2</strong> (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. </p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.</strong> </p>
<p>"Falser brings a spotlight on the fascinating yet underexplored world of transcultural studies through his thorough scholarship of Angkor Wat’s modern history. The book adds considerably to our understanding of the temple and the Angor Archaeological Park. It is an excellent in-depth research, commendable for bringing together a wide range of disciplines in the complex nexus of transcultural studies."<br><strong><em>Swati Chemburkar in Journal of Art Historiography, Vol. 25, 12.2021</em></strong></p>
<p>"[…] a Herculean accomplishment: Falser has crafted an enormously thorough and detailed history of heritage at Angkor, a whole collection of books in just a single work. […] Falser is not only painstaking with his multilingual source material and skilled in choosing insightful maps, plans, pictures and photos but also brings his architectural background to bear on the actual conservation and reconstruction measures, an aspect that a mere focus on Angkor as image and idea might have missed. […] His book will be the authoritative reference for decades to come and the gold standard for what a historical study of a (post)colonial heritage site and its travelling images can accomplish."<br><strong><em>Prof. Christoph Brumann, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Germany. Book Review: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 22:11, Spring 2021.</em></strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2021.0012">https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2021.0012</a> </p>
<p>"Michael Falser has produced a splendid and doubt-less never-to-be-rivaled study of Angkor, its history, character and design, and place in the European imagination. [...] Falser’s work is a treasure trove of new information and alternative ways to interpret and decipher the astonishing remains of an ancient culture."<br><em><strong>Prof. William Chapman, School of Architecture, The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Book Review, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 11.2020</strong></em><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003"><u>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003</u></a> </p>
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<p>"Michael Falser’s comparably massive two-volume study [is] a dauntingly detailed magnum opus. Drawing upon a wide spectrum of theoretical, historical, anthropological and archaeological literature, as well as extensive new archival material, Falser provides an exhaustive history not of the building itself, [...] but of its colonial and postcolonial afterlife. This work immediately becomes the definitive source on the subject."<br><strong><em>Prof. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen's University, Ontario/Canada.</em></strong> <em><strong>Book Review: Unmasking Angkor Wat - A French-made Invention of Tradition. Kunstchronik, 12.2020, 604-611</strong><br></em><a href="https://www.zikg.eu/forschung/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik/inhaltsverzeichnisse/pdf/heft-12_dezember-2020"><u>https://www.zikg.eu/forschung/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik/inhaltsverzeichnisse/pdf/heft-12_dezember-2020</u></a> </p>
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<p>"Ce livre est non seulement une contribution magistrale à l’histoire contemporaine d’Angkor, mais sur un plan épistémologique plus général, il est aussi voué à devenir une référence importante dans l’étude des processus transculturels de patrimonialisation."<br><strong><em>Prof. Bernard Formoso, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3. Compte rendu: Moussons - Recherche en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est 36/2020</em> <em>279-281</em><br></strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.6978"><u>https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.6978</u></a> </p>
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<p>"A feast for the eyes of general readers as well as specialists are the approximately 1,400 illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, carefully selected from different national and private archives in France and Cambodia, interwoven with photographs taken by the author himself during fieldwork in 2010."<br><em><strong>Phuong Phan, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Berlin. Asian Review of Books, 5.2020</strong></em><br><a href="https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/"><u>https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/</u></a> </p>
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<p>"With well-selected and relevant sources, Falser has revealed new aspects of the relationship between European monument protection, colonialism and Asian cultural heritage. The monograph provides clear and sophisticated information about the era, the political and scientific background, and the environment in which Angkor became a world cultural heritage site. For these reasons alone, Falser’s two-volume monograph merits mention as one of the most interesting publications of recent times." <br><strong><em>Károly Belényesy and Csilla Kőfalvi (Budapest, Hungary). Book Review, SOJOURN – Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 36/1 (March 2021), 193-196</em></strong>.<br><a href="https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/account/downloads/get/21548">https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/account/downloads/get/21548</a> </p>
<p>" "[...] This transdisciplinary work expands our understanding of how and why ideas about Angkor Wat have shifted over time and how the temple complex has been instrumentalized by various political causes and agents. The book is extensive and an important contribution to the field [...] The source materials collected within these volumes are vast; it is richly illustrated with over 1400 photographs, etchings, advertisements, maps and more, many in full colour. This alone serves as a crucial repository of archival materials for anyone interested in the visual depictions of Angkor, especially as international physical archives are not always accessible to students due to costs of travel. The materials Falser mobilizes in the text are also extensive and it is clear from the painstaking research, which took the author to archives across the world, how much of a labour of love this book is. [...]" <br><strong><em>Dr. Joanna Wolfarth, School of Arts and Humanities, Open University, UK. Book Review, South East Asia Research (SOAS London), 10.2021 <br></em></strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1986293">https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1986293 </a></p>
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<p><strong>Further reviews:</strong> </p>
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<p>Nicholas Ford, University of Exeter, UK. Book review: <strong><em>International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Reviews (October 2021)</em></strong> <br><a href="https://www.iias.asia/the-review/angkor-wat-transcultural-history-heritage">https://www.iias.asia/the-review/angkor-wat-transcultural-history-heritage </a></p>
<p>Chanratana Chen, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Book Review: <strong><em>Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), Cambridge University Press, 29 March 2021, 1-8</em></strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463421000230">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463421000230</a> </p>
<p>Keiko Miura, Waseda University, Tokyo. Book review: <strong><em>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</em> <em>(N.S.)</em> 27, 176-77</strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13440">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13440</a> </p>
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<p>Alain Forest, Sorbonne University, Paris. Book review: <em><strong>Francia Recensio 2020/4</strong></em> <a href="https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2020.4.77507">https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2020.4.77507</a> </p>
<p>Niem Chheng, <strong><em>The Phnom Penh Post and SEAArch/Southeasia Archaeology, 5.2020</em></strong><br><a href="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat"><u>https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat</u></a> </p>
<p>"[…] a Herculean accomplishment: Falser has crafted an enormously thorough and detailed history of heritage at Angkor, a whole collection of books in just a single work. […] Falser is not only painstaking with his multilingual source material and skilled in choosing insightful maps, plans, pictures and photos but also brings his architectural background to bear on the actual conservation and reconstruction measures, an aspect that a mere focus on Angkor as image and idea might have missed. […] His book will be the authoritative reference for decades to come and the gold standard for what a historical study of a (post)colonial heritage site and its travelling images can accomplish."<br><strong><em>Prof. Christoph Brumann, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Germany. Book Review: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 22:11, Spring 2021.</em></strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2021.0012">https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2021.0012</a> </p>
<p>"Michael Falser has produced a splendid and doubt-less never-to-be-rivaled study of Angkor, its history, character and design, and place in the European imagination. [...] Falser’s work is a treasure trove of new information and alternative ways to interpret and decipher the astonishing remains of an ancient culture."<br><em><strong>Prof. William Chapman, School of Architecture, The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Book Review, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 11.2020</strong></em><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003"><u>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003</u></a> </p>
<p></p>
<p>"Michael Falser’s comparably massive two-volume study [is] a dauntingly detailed magnum opus. Drawing upon a wide spectrum of theoretical, historical, anthropological and archaeological literature, as well as extensive new archival material, Falser provides an exhaustive history not of the building itself, [...] but of its colonial and postcolonial afterlife. This work immediately becomes the definitive source on the subject."<br><strong><em>Prof. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen's University, Ontario/Canada.</em></strong> <em><strong>Book Review: Unmasking Angkor Wat - A French-made Invention of Tradition. Kunstchronik, 12.2020, 604-611</strong><br></em><a href="https://www.zikg.eu/forschung/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik/inhaltsverzeichnisse/pdf/heft-12_dezember-2020"><u>https://www.zikg.eu/forschung/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik/inhaltsverzeichnisse/pdf/heft-12_dezember-2020</u></a> </p>
<p></p>
<p>"Ce livre est non seulement une contribution magistrale à l’histoire contemporaine d’Angkor, mais sur un plan épistémologique plus général, il est aussi voué à devenir une référence importante dans l’étude des processus transculturels de patrimonialisation."<br><strong><em>Prof. Bernard Formoso, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3. Compte rendu: Moussons - Recherche en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est 36/2020</em> <em>279-281</em><br></strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.6978"><u>https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.6978</u></a> </p>
<p></p>
<p>"A feast for the eyes of general readers as well as specialists are the approximately 1,400 illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, carefully selected from different national and private archives in France and Cambodia, interwoven with photographs taken by the author himself during fieldwork in 2010."<br><em><strong>Phuong Phan, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Berlin. Asian Review of Books, 5.2020</strong></em><br><a href="https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/"><u>https://asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/</u></a> </p>
<p></p>
<p>"With well-selected and relevant sources, Falser has revealed new aspects of the relationship between European monument protection, colonialism and Asian cultural heritage. The monograph provides clear and sophisticated information about the era, the political and scientific background, and the environment in which Angkor became a world cultural heritage site. For these reasons alone, Falser’s two-volume monograph merits mention as one of the most interesting publications of recent times." <br><strong><em>Károly Belényesy and Csilla Kőfalvi (Budapest, Hungary). Book Review, SOJOURN – Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 36/1 (March 2021), 193-196</em></strong>.<br><a href="https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/account/downloads/get/21548">https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/account/downloads/get/21548</a> </p>
<p>" "[...] This transdisciplinary work expands our understanding of how and why ideas about Angkor Wat have shifted over time and how the temple complex has been instrumentalized by various political causes and agents. The book is extensive and an important contribution to the field [...] The source materials collected within these volumes are vast; it is richly illustrated with over 1400 photographs, etchings, advertisements, maps and more, many in full colour. This alone serves as a crucial repository of archival materials for anyone interested in the visual depictions of Angkor, especially as international physical archives are not always accessible to students due to costs of travel. The materials Falser mobilizes in the text are also extensive and it is clear from the painstaking research, which took the author to archives across the world, how much of a labour of love this book is. [...]" <br><strong><em>Dr. Joanna Wolfarth, School of Arts and Humanities, Open University, UK. Book Review, South East Asia Research (SOAS London), 10.2021 <br></em></strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1986293">https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1986293 </a></p>
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<strong></strong>
<p><strong>Further reviews:</strong> </p>
<p></p>
<p>Nicholas Ford, University of Exeter, UK. Book review: <strong><em>International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), Reviews (October 2021)</em></strong> <br><a href="https://www.iias.asia/the-review/angkor-wat-transcultural-history-heritage">https://www.iias.asia/the-review/angkor-wat-transcultural-history-heritage </a></p>
<p>Chanratana Chen, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Book Review: <strong><em>Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), Cambridge University Press, 29 March 2021, 1-8</em></strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463421000230">https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463421000230</a> </p>
<p>Keiko Miura, Waseda University, Tokyo. Book review: <strong><em>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</em> <em>(N.S.)</em> 27, 176-77</strong><br><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13440">https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13440</a> </p>
<p></p>
<p>Alain Forest, Sorbonne University, Paris. Book review: <em><strong>Francia Recensio 2020/4</strong></em> <a href="https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2020.4.77507">https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2020.4.77507</a> </p>
<p>Niem Chheng, <strong><em>The Phnom Penh Post and SEAArch/Southeasia Archaeology, 5.2020</em></strong><br><a href="https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat"><u>https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat</u></a> </p>
<strong>Michael Falser</strong>, University of Heidelberg.
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