Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm / / Shelly Errington.
The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the "head of state" but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons and houses were and are viewed as centered spaces (locations) where spiritual potency can gather. Shelly Errington explores the politics of co...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Orthography, Pronunciation, and Language
- Introduction. The Problem of Meaning in the Study of Politics
- Part I. A Geography of Signs
- Chapter One. The Person
- Chapter Two. Microcosm/Macrocosm
- Chapter Three. The Polity
- Comment on Part I. Reading Movement
- Part II. Centrifugal Tendencies
- Chapter Four. Vulnerable Places
- Chapter Five. The Contest for Place
- Part III. Centripetal Structures
- Chapter Six. The Potency of Names
- Chapter Seven. Forgetting Genealogies
- Chapter Eight. Centripetal Marriage
- Conclusions
- Local Conclusion. Transcending Politics
- Comparative Conclusion. The Political Geographies of Potency
- General Conclusion. Empowered Signs
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Illustrations