A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
Buddhism (Leoshko 2004). The research on Buddhism was undertaken by scholars such as Alexander Cunningham (1814–93) and L. Austi ...
came back to India to the newly formed Archaeological Survey of India (after ASI’s revival in 1871, it had a further decline in ...
The duty of investigating, describing and protecting the ancient monuments of a Country is recognised and acted on by every civi ...
roots, transmitted to him through the teachings of his mother, reading Homer alongside the Vedas. The opposite process, European ...
British oYcers received for their photographs, the names of these low-paid Indians (at least 28 in the 1870s) were not revealed ...
urge towards conquest and more assertive colonialism. It is within this framework that France appropriated Cambodia (making it a ...
The interest shown in ancient monuments centred on the Khmer site of Angkor in present-day Cambodia and, at a later date, on the ...
1873 as part of the mission report. Inscriptions showed the presence of two diVerent languages. The Angkor ruins impressed Delap ...
In Vietnam, some individuals focused their interest on the study of coins. Some studies were published in the bulletin of the So ...
1880 respectively (Chapter 5). The school was the initiative of three philologists and members of the French Acade ́mie des Insc ...
archaeology. For the period under study (with a few exceptions such as those commented on for India, Indonesia, and the later de ...
(Wright 1991: 193); yet, this high level of illiteracy was not shared by the native intelligentsia. Cherry points out that three ...
inscription no. 1—on a stone stelae, supposedly dating to the thirteenth centuryce. 6 This pushed the historical chronology of t ...
undertook research on the natural sciences, anthropology and antiquities. 7 At the meeting of the Siam Society, Gerini alluded t ...
led?...Thecuriositythat is gratiWed with inquiring into the laws implanted in organised beings, or into the general phenomena wh ...
In the case of South and Southeast Asia, the discovery of forgotten civil- izations gave dignity to the colonies, a dignity that ...
province of private individuals and learned societies in the early decades of the nineteenth century, in later years the study o ...
British Archaeological Department of Burma (then part of British India) and the re-Xotation in 1902 of the Archaeological Survey ...
sculpture, painting and architecture; and,Wnally, the cramming for examin- ations, which prevented ‘that love of knowledge and r ...
9 Classical versus Islamic Antiquities in Colonial Archaeology: The Russian Empire and French North Africa This chapter revisits ...
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