Monastery, monument, museum: sites and artifacts of Thai cultural memory, by Maurizio Peleggi

Abstract

Buddhist landscape and cultural memory -- Itinerant icons of the Theravada ecumene -- The place of the other in temple art -- Kings and antiquarians -- A museum and an art history for the Thai nation -- Whose prehistory? : Thailand before the Thais -- Monumental failures -- Rubbing the past into the present [Contemporary artists tackle Thailand's tabooed past].