Maurizio Peleggi
Biographic Data
| ID | 219926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Peleggi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Peleggi |
| SIGNATURE | PELEGGI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
In memoriam: Dayaneetha De Silva
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Prehistory and Ideology in Cold War Southeast Asia: The Politics of Wartime Archaeology in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975
The two decades comprised within the partition of Vietnam and the end of the Indochina Wars surprisingly saw major advances in prehistoric archaeology in the region. This article examines the political context and implications of archaeological investigations conducted in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under the guidance of, respectively, American and Soviet specialists, as an aspect of the cultural Cold War. Archaeological disco…
The Power of the Copy: Rethinking Replication Through the Cult Image
The employment of digital technology in recent instances of artwork replication raises important questions about the perceptual and ontological distinction between original and copy, for the latter is purported to be even more authentic than an original that has undergone alterations. Such instances challenge not only Benjamin's claim about the loss of aura but also Goodman's distinction between autographic and allographic arts. The article propo…
When shrines and images grow tired: Toward a theory of devotional conservation
10.1086/719600
A Case for Comparative History
The launch, at the time of a global pandemic that has dramatically altered the way academics teach and do research, of a new peer-reviewed, open-access history journal is twice welcome—for it manifests the continuing ability of the discipline of history to make sense of the time and world in which we live as well as its endurance in increasingly science-oriented academia [...]
When art was political: Historicising decolonisation and the Cold War in Southeast Asia through curatorial practice
In Asia, and in Southeast Asia in particular, the Cold War was far from cold, witnessing the most deadly conflicts and political massacres of the second half of the twentieth century. Also, the clash of ideologies there did not follow a binary logic but included a third force, nationalism, which was rooted in the anticolonialist movements of the interwar years and played a significant role even in countries that decolonised peacefully after the e…
Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image
Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated …
The hotel in history: Evolving perspectives
This discussion draws together six of the leading practitioners of hotel history in order to explore the state of the field and its larger relevance. Together they touch on questions related to imperialism and colonialism, science and technology, transatlantic connections, national distinctiveness (or lack thereof), as well as economic, social and cultural history
Samson Lim. Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand
Based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, this intriguingly titled monograph aims to contribute “to the discipline of history and to the study of Thailand” by “offer[ing] the first extended overview of the development of the [police] force in English” and “show[ing] how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols that require a close reading” (7–8). Accordingly, Sa…
Masked: The life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress at the court of Siam
Masked: the life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress at the court of Siam." Asian Studies Review, 40(3), pp. 473–474
A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand
Excavating Southeast Asia's prehistory in the Cold War: American archaeology in neocolonial Thailand
The discovery and excavation in the 1960s through to the mid 1970s of several prehistoric sites in north and northeastern Thailand, the best known being the World Heritage site of Ban Chiang, were a major breakthrough in Southeast Asian archaeology. Evidence of an autonomous Bronze Age tradition contradicted colonial scholarship's view of Southeast Asia as a cultural backwater that owed its advancement to imports from India and China. Subsequentl…
From Buddhist Icons to National Antiquities: Cultural Nationalism and Colonial Knowledge in the Making of Thailand's History of Art
In the mid 1920s Prince Damrong Rajanubhab and George Coedès jointly formulated the stylistic classification of Thailand's antiquities that was employed to reorganize the collection of the Bangkok Museum and has since acquired canonical status. The reorganization of the Bangkok Museum as a 'national' institution in the final years of royal absolutism responded to increasing international interest in the history and ancient art of Southeast Asia, …
The Social and Material Life of Colonial Hotels: Comfort Zones as Contact Zones in British Colombo and Singapore, ca. 1870-1930
During the period 1870-1930, from the opening of the Suez Canal to the Great Depression, "European" hotels became a common fixture of the built and social landscapes of many colonial cities, and in particular of Colombo and Singapore, the two main ports-of-call along the Indian Ocean's navigational routes. Compared to travelers' lodgings previously available in the colonies, such hotels offered higher standards of comfort, and the possibility for…
Consuming colonial nostalgia: The monumentalisation of historic hotels in urban South-East Asia
This article examines the renovation and commercial re-launch in the 1990s of some of the grand hotels built in South-East Asia during the high colonial era (1880s–1910s) and their social construction as historic monuments. The analysis focuses on architectural enhancement and discursive authentication as the key practices whereby the semblance of historic authenticity is bestowed on these hotels and made available as nostalgia to consumers. The …
Shifting Alterity: The Mongol in the Visual and Literary Culture of the Late Middle Ages
This article details the shift in the nature of cultural representations of the Mongols that were articulated in Europe from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fourteenth centuries by means of literary and visual texts. By examining reports of Franciscan missionaries to the court of the Khans, Marco Polo's famous travelogue Description of the World, and a fresco by the Sienese painter A mbrogio Lorenzetti, this essay endeavours to show that European c…
National heritage and global tourism in Thailand
Consuming colonial nostalgia: The monumentalisation of historic hotels in urban South-East Asia
This article examines the renovation and commercial re-launch in the 1990s of some of the grand hotels built in South-East Asia during the high colonial era (1880s–1910s) and their social construction as historic monuments. The analysis focuses on architectural enhancement and discursive authentication as the key practices whereby the semblance of historic authenticity is bestowed on these hotels and made available as nostalgia to consumers. The …
National heritage and global tourism in Thailand
The hotel in history: Evolving perspectives
This discussion draws together six of the leading practitioners of hotel history in order to explore the state of the field and its larger relevance. Together they touch on questions related to imperialism and colonialism, science and technology, transatlantic connections, national distinctiveness (or lack thereof), as well as economic, social and cultural history
The Social and Material Life of Colonial Hotels: Comfort Zones as Contact Zones in British Colombo and Singapore, ca. 1870-1930
During the period 1870-1930, from the opening of the Suez Canal to the Great Depression, "European" hotels became a common fixture of the built and social landscapes of many colonial cities, and in particular of Colombo and Singapore, the two main ports-of-call along the Indian Ocean's navigational routes. Compared to travelers' lodgings previously available in the colonies, such hotels offered higher standards of comfort, and the possibility for…
A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand
From Buddhist Icons to National Antiquities: Cultural Nationalism and Colonial Knowledge in the Making of Thailand's History of Art
In the mid 1920s Prince Damrong Rajanubhab and George Coedès jointly formulated the stylistic classification of Thailand's antiquities that was employed to reorganize the collection of the Bangkok Museum and has since acquired canonical status. The reorganization of the Bangkok Museum as a 'national' institution in the final years of royal absolutism responded to increasing international interest in the history and ancient art of Southeast Asia, …
The Power of the Copy: Rethinking Replication Through the Cult Image
The employment of digital technology in recent instances of artwork replication raises important questions about the perceptual and ontological distinction between original and copy, for the latter is purported to be even more authentic than an original that has undergone alterations. Such instances challenge not only Benjamin's claim about the loss of aura but also Goodman's distinction between autographic and allographic arts. The article propo…
Excavating Southeast Asia's prehistory in the Cold War: American archaeology in neocolonial Thailand
The discovery and excavation in the 1960s through to the mid 1970s of several prehistoric sites in north and northeastern Thailand, the best known being the World Heritage site of Ban Chiang, were a major breakthrough in Southeast Asian archaeology. Evidence of an autonomous Bronze Age tradition contradicted colonial scholarship's view of Southeast Asia as a cultural backwater that owed its advancement to imports from India and China. Subsequentl…
National heritage and global tourism in Thailand
Shifting Alterity: The Mongol in the Visual and Literary Culture of the Late Middle Ages
This article details the shift in the nature of cultural representations of the Mongols that were articulated in Europe from the mid-thirteenth to the mid-fourteenth centuries by means of literary and visual texts. By examining reports of Franciscan missionaries to the court of the Khans, Marco Polo's famous travelogue Description of the World, and a fresco by the Sienese painter A mbrogio Lorenzetti, this essay endeavours to show that European c…
Consuming colonial nostalgia: The monumentalisation of historic hotels in urban South-East Asia
This article examines the renovation and commercial re-launch in the 1990s of some of the grand hotels built in South-East Asia during the high colonial era (1880s–1910s) and their social construction as historic monuments. The analysis focuses on architectural enhancement and discursive authentication as the key practices whereby the semblance of historic authenticity is bestowed on these hotels and made available as nostalgia to consumers. The …
The Social and Material Life of Colonial Hotels: Comfort Zones as Contact Zones in British Colombo and Singapore, ca. 1870-1930
During the period 1870-1930, from the opening of the Suez Canal to the Great Depression, "European" hotels became a common fixture of the built and social landscapes of many colonial cities, and in particular of Colombo and Singapore, the two main ports-of-call along the Indian Ocean's navigational routes. Compared to travelers' lodgings previously available in the colonies, such hotels offered higher standards of comfort, and the possibility for…
From Buddhist Icons to National Antiquities: Cultural Nationalism and Colonial Knowledge in the Making of Thailand's History of Art
In the mid 1920s Prince Damrong Rajanubhab and George Coedès jointly formulated the stylistic classification of Thailand's antiquities that was employed to reorganize the collection of the Bangkok Museum and has since acquired canonical status. The reorganization of the Bangkok Museum as a 'national' institution in the final years of royal absolutism responded to increasing international interest in the history and ancient art of Southeast Asia, …
Masked: The life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress at the court of Siam
Masked: the life of Anna Leonowens, schoolmistress at the court of Siam." Asian Studies Review, 40(3), pp. 473–474
A Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand
Excavating Southeast Asia's prehistory in the Cold War: American archaeology in neocolonial Thailand
The discovery and excavation in the 1960s through to the mid 1970s of several prehistoric sites in north and northeastern Thailand, the best known being the World Heritage site of Ban Chiang, were a major breakthrough in Southeast Asian archaeology. Evidence of an autonomous Bronze Age tradition contradicted colonial scholarship's view of Southeast Asia as a cultural backwater that owed its advancement to imports from India and China. Subsequentl…
Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image
Lords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion its self and public image in the early stages of globalization. It examines the westernized modes of consumption and self-presentation, the residential and representational architecture, and the public spectacles appropriated …
The hotel in history: Evolving perspectives
This discussion draws together six of the leading practitioners of hotel history in order to explore the state of the field and its larger relevance. Together they touch on questions related to imperialism and colonialism, science and technology, transatlantic connections, national distinctiveness (or lack thereof), as well as economic, social and cultural history
Samson Lim. Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand
Based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, this intriguingly titled monograph aims to contribute “to the discipline of history and to the study of Thailand” by “offer[ing] the first extended overview of the development of the [police] force in English” and “show[ing] how a historical analysis of form can supplement the way many scholars have traditionally approached visual sources, as symbols that require a close reading” (7–8). Accordingly, Sa…
When art was political: Historicising decolonisation and the Cold War in Southeast Asia through curatorial practice
In Asia, and in Southeast Asia in particular, the Cold War was far from cold, witnessing the most deadly conflicts and political massacres of the second half of the twentieth century. Also, the clash of ideologies there did not follow a binary logic but included a third force, nationalism, which was rooted in the anticolonialist movements of the interwar years and played a significant role even in countries that decolonised peacefully after the e…
A Case for Comparative History
The launch, at the time of a global pandemic that has dramatically altered the way academics teach and do research, of a new peer-reviewed, open-access history journal is twice welcome—for it manifests the continuing ability of the discipline of history to make sense of the time and world in which we live as well as its endurance in increasingly science-oriented academia [...]
The Power of the Copy: Rethinking Replication Through the Cult Image
The employment of digital technology in recent instances of artwork replication raises important questions about the perceptual and ontological distinction between original and copy, for the latter is purported to be even more authentic than an original that has undergone alterations. Such instances challenge not only Benjamin's claim about the loss of aura but also Goodman's distinction between autographic and allographic arts. The article propo…
When shrines and images grow tired: Toward a theory of devotional conservation
10.1086/719600
Prehistory and Ideology in Cold War Southeast Asia: The Politics of Wartime Archaeology in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975
The two decades comprised within the partition of Vietnam and the end of the Indochina Wars surprisingly saw major advances in prehistoric archaeology in the region. This article examines the political context and implications of archaeological investigations conducted in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under the guidance of, respectively, American and Soviet specialists, as an aspect of the cultural Cold War. Archaeological disco…
In memoriam: Dayaneetha De Silva
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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