...Walter M. Spink Old Burma—Early Pagán . By Gordon H. Luce et al. 3 vols. Locust Valley : J. J. Augustin , 1969 . Vol I. Text, xviii, 422 pp. Index of Plates, Map. Vol. II Catalogue of Plates, Indexes. 337 pp. Map. Vol. III. Plates. 455 plates. $120 the set. (Published for Artibus...

...Robert L. Brown The fairly lengthy section on materials is a surprise. Materialist explanations for artistic forms are very much out of favor today, but Stadtner shows how the use of stucco and ceramic for architectural design helps to explain the nature of the Pagan monuments. The section...

...Albert S. Bacdayan Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 The Discovery of the Igorots: Spanish Contacts with the Pagans of Northern Luzon . by William Henry Scott . Quezon City : New Day Publishers , 1974 . xiii, 370 pp. Bibliography, Index. $9.25 (dist...

...Rhoads Murphey Abstract The study of abandoned civilizations, and of the reasons for the disaster, is a field in which many imaginations have wandered. In several parts of Southeast Asia, notably in Cambodia, northern Siam (the Kingdom of Haripunjaya), the Pagan area in the dry zone of Burma...

... an idea of the pagan peoples adjacent to the Mohammedans. Garvan's intensive study of the Manobo of the Agusan river valley is a classic of description, while the papers of Benedict and the author furnish a rather full picture of the tribes along the Gulf of Davao. 7 Blair and Robertson, op. cit., p...

... history, mainly consisting of royal and religious chronicles, and the more academic production, the main representative of which is certainly G. H. Luce. A specialist of the Pagan "period," his first papers date back to the 1920s, while his main opus, Old Burma, Early Pagan, was published as recently...

... Studies 40 ( 1 ): 87 – 90 . Aung-Thwin Michael. 1984 . “ Hierarchy and Order in Pre-Colonial Burma .” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15 ( 2 ): 224 –32. Aung-Thwin Michael. 1985 . Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press . Aung-Thwin Michael...

... chronicles, and the more academic production, the main representative of which is certainly G. H. Luce. A specialist of the Pagan "period," his first papers date back to the 1920s, while his main opus, Old Burma, Early Pagan, was published as recently as 1970. In between, he has been instrumental...

..., hereafter cited as “Sasana Reform.”. 2 Of five major cycles—Pagan (1044–1287), Ava (1365-ca. 1555), First Taung-ngu ( ca . 1530– 1599), Restored Taung-ngu (1597–1752), and Kon-baung (1752–1885) –rulers in the Pagan and perhaps the Ava period were genealogically discontinuous, so the term...

... Univ. Press , 1977 ), pp. 99 – 101 et passim presents a brief but succinct account of the socio-economic factors behind the rebellion. For a detailed account of the cycle in the Pagan period itself, see ch. iv and the conclusion of my dissertation, “The Nature of State and Society in Pagan...

... diplomatic duties. Nonetheless, they are excellent essays that contribute substantially to our understanding of Burmese history. The first essay, "The 'Fall of Pagan': Continuity and Change in 14th-century Burma," is perhaps the best of the three, and the only one of them not written from a comparative...

... temple itself, built according to Luce in about 1105 A.D., quite late in the reign of King Kyanzittha, one of Pagan's most pious as well as most powerful rulers. Over and over the importance of royal patronage in defining the nature of Burmese Buddhism, and in supporting its growth, is emphasized...

... dramatically still—“tenets that are seen as inimical to village tradition are rejected” (p. 233). The image of a civil, pagan “ivy” growing out of the cracked brickwork of Buddhist infrastructure is searing. One can only imagine the profound challenge that this would have posed to any itinerant proselytizing...

..., on the issue of Pagan cultivation he rightly points out that 3,000,000 acres are too large for the thirteenth century but this figure was never presented as such. Rather it was intended to demonstrate, through early colonial surveys, the impossibility of attempting to equate acreages watered by major...

... Portuguese travelers, de Barros, gave a description of the Indies.8 He stated that to the East all belongs to pagans, with the exception of Malacca, a part of Sumatra, some harbours in Java and some Molucca islands, which belong to the Moores, "The pest," as he added, "which spread from Malacca by the road...

... pagan peoples occupying the coastal plains and the valleys of Luzon and the Visayas were indios; the aggressive, pirating, slave-hunting, marauding proselytes of Islam, established in Jolo, Mindanao, and minor coastal settlements on Mindoro, Lubang, and even on the shores of Manila Bay at the mouth...

... is, not surprisingly, most detailed, his portrayal of Champa, Angkor, Pagan, Ayutthaya, Srivijaya, and Majapahit is faithful to their sources. While he resists "any [coercive interpretive] tradition" (p. 181) of early Southeast Asian history, one notices certain similar (although perhaps not coercive) themes: clear...

... (in The Indianization of China and of South-east Asia, London, 1967), H. G. Quaritch Wales now turns to Burma and Siam. What primarily interests him are the civilizations of Pagan and Sukhothai, and his study provides an opportunity to retell the little that is known about the history of these two cities during...

... diplomatic duties. Nonetheless, they are excellent essays that contribute substantially to our understanding of Burmese history. The first essay, "The 'Fall of Pagan': Continuity and Change in 14th-century Burma," is perhaps the best of the three, and the only one of them not written from a comparative...

... commercial contacts with the continent mitigated the “twin dangers of overseas military entanglement and foreign invasion,” which plagued Pagan, Angkor, Kiev, the Carolingians, and Valois France (398). He casts the period from circa 1280 to 1600 as a time, first of devolution then subsequent reintegration...