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ISBN: 0789211947 9780789211941 Year: 2014 Publisher: Kuala Lumpur: JF Publishing,
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A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with new color photography and 3-D renderings. Over the course of its 2,500-year history, Buddhism has found expression in countless architectural forms, from the great monastic complexes of ancient India to the fortified dzongs of Bhutan, the rock-carved temple grottoes of China, the wooden shrines of Japan, and the colorful wats of Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Architecture of the Buddhist World, a projected six-volume series by the noted architect and scholar Vikram Lall, represents a new multidisciplinary approach to this fascinating subject, showing how Buddhist thought and ritual have interacted with local traditions across the Asian continent to produce masterpieces of religious architecture.The first volume in the series, The Golden Lands, is devoted to Southeast Asia, home to many of the most spectacular Buddhist monuments. Following a general introduction to the early history of Buddhism and its most characteristic architectural forms (the stupa, the temple, and the monastery), Lall examines the Buddhist architecture of Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos in turn. For each country, he provides both a historical overview and case studies of noteworthy structures. Lall’s concise and accessible text is illustrated throughout with new color photography, as well as 3-D architectural renderings that make even the most complex structures easily comprehensible. The monuments that Lall considers in The Golden Lands range from the modest Bupaya stupa, constructed in Bagan, Myanmar, in the third century AD, to the vast complex of Borobudur in Central Java, the world’s largest Buddhist monument; his achievement is to place them all within a single panorama of history, religion, and artistic innovation.
Architecture religieuse --- Bouddhisme --- Asie du sud est --- Cambodge --- Indonésie --- Laos --- Birmanie --- Thaïlande --- Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780415834001 9781138956315 9781135051341 9781135051327 9781135051334 Year: 2014 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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Governing refugees examines the themes of community governance, order maintenance and legal pluralism in the context of refugee camps. The nature of a refugee situation is such that multiple actors take a role in camp management, creating a complex governance environment which has a significant impact on the lives of refugees but which also speaks to deeply important questions of law and politics, including the production of order beyond the state, justice as a contested site, and the influence of transnational human rights discourses on local justice practice. Focusing specifically on the refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, this book sheds light on the reality of life in a refugee camp, through exploring the historical evolution and practice of dispute resolution, and examining the ways in which this 'traditional' practice is altered by the influence of new norms encountered during encampment, particularly international human rights law and the law of the host state. Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger, and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees marshalls empirical data and ethnographic detail to challenge such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognised as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but thrive.
Réfugiés --- Karen (peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) --- Statut juridique --- Activité politique --- Migration. Refugees --- Human rights --- Thailand --- Myanmar
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ISBN: 9781349546336 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan,
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Langues vivantes. --- Langues. --- Politique linguistique. --- Reconstruction de l'État. --- Sociolinguistique. --- Étude et enseignement. --- Asie du sud-est.
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ISBN: 9780198703532 0198703538 0191008575 9780191008573 1306411327 9781306411325 9780191772641 019177264X Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press
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This volume examines different ideologies and related political coalitions forming the bases of movements for accountability reform in Southeast Asia.
Government accountability --- Democracy --- Obligation de rendre compte (Administration publique) --- Démocratie --- Southeast Asia / Politics and government --- Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Democracy. --- Politics and government. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Australian
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