Angkor Wat’s modern history reclaimed from French colonialists, and the cultural politics of Unesco
via South China Morning Post, 31 May 2020: Another review of Michael Falser's Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage ...
Tag: colonialism
The policy of extending a country’s physical authority over other people and their territory, usually for economic gain.
Decolonizing Museums symposium, 23 March 2020
Readers in Cambridge, Massachusetts may be interested in this symposium on Decolonizing Museums with a perspective from Southeast Asia.
Netherlands returns 1,500 historical artifacts to Indonesia
via Jakarta Post, 07 January 2020: The return of the objects from the Nusantara Museum was reported four years ago.
End of Golden Age: Dutch museum bans term from exhibits
via The Guardian, 13 Sep 2019: Not related to archaeology directly, but museology and representation of the past. The Amsterdam ...
Raffles in Southeast Asia: A multilayered exploration of the man, colonialism and re-looking our past
The bicentennary, Raffles, the discourse of (de)colonisation and rejection of the 'Big Man' myth all come together in this one ...
Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era
via The Conversation, 05 April 2018: An important discussion to be held in the context of archaeology and Southeast Asia. ...
Nearly a century after the bloody murder of a French colonial official, a village still bears the mark of the ‘beast’
via Phnom Penh Post, 19 January 2018: A interesting story about a Cambodian village and its 'mark of shame' in ...
Colonial conquest’s lost treasures return to Myanmar
via Frontier Myanmar, 08 August 2017: Artefacts taken from the Shwemawdaw Pagoda in Bago during the 19th century as part ...
The Invisible Cambodians [insert local nationality here]
via Phnom Penh Post, 07 February 2018: When people think of archaeology in Cambodia, names like Henri Mouhot, who popularised ...
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