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The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art
Bruce McFa Lockhart
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Paperback. The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. Their Indianized civilization flourished for centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia. This book presents a revisionist overview of Cham history. Editor(s): Lockhart, Bruce McFarland; Phuong, Tran Ky. Num Pages: 488 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBJF; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 694.
The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and fifteenth centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia, but the Cham territories eventually became part of modern Vietnam. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, the essays in The Cham of Vietnam contribute to a revisionist overview of Cham history by re-assessing the ways the Cham have been studied by different generations of scholars of what ... Read more
The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and fifteenth centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia, but the Cham territories eventually became part of modern Vietnam. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, the essays in The Cham of Vietnam contribute to a revisionist overview of Cham history by re-assessing the ways the Cham have been studied by different generations of scholars of what ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694593
SKU
V9789971694593
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About Bruce McFa Lockhart
BRUCE LOCKHART is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. Tran Ky Phuong was curator of the Museum of Champa Sculpture in Danang, Vietnam, from 1978 until 1998, and is now an independent researcher on Cham art and cultural area studies in Central Vietnam
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