Broken Buddhas, burials, and sanctuary-adjacent sanctuaries
The ancestral animist archaeologies of Angkor's ancient places and things
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4914469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Harris (0000-0003-2927-8818, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Tina Tin (APSARA National Authority), Rachna Chhay (0000-0002-5591-0736, APSARA National Authority), Phirom Vitou (APSARA National Authority) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-188 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2024.2354807 |
| OpenAlex | W4399389296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
A growing body of scholarship exploring Cambodia's cultural-religious environment alongside reinterpretations of ancient Angkorian epigraphy has illuminated the enduring sacredness of Cambodia's ancient religious places and objects. This assertion comes despite apparent dissociation of these elements from their original ascribed identities (Brahmano-Buddhist) and disuse as focal points of politico-religious congregation at some point in the past. Although documented within Cambodian archaeological studies since the 20th century, fieldwork conducted at ancient Theravāda Buddhist monasteries (vihāra/praḥ vihār) within the Khmer civic-ceremonial center of Angkor Thom between 2017 and 2023 have substantiated that these ancient statues and holy spaces continued to serve as equivalently spiritual, highly localized arenas of ancestral animist practices and cultural-historical negotiation over time. This paper assesses several categories of these archaeological data within the framework of reidentification, reuse, and transformation beyond initial discard, including the deposition of statuary and acts of place-making in the vicinity of older ruins
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Archaeological Research and Protection · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · History
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |