The mists of Rāmañña : the legend that was lower Burma / Michael A. Aung-Thwin.

Author/creator Aung-Thwin, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoHonolulu : University of Hawai'i Press : Published with the support of the School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i, ©2005.
Descriptionxi, 433 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents The Pyū millennium -- Rāmaññadesa : an imagined polity -- Thatôn (Sudhuim) : an imagined center -- The conquest of Thatôn : an imagined event -- The conquest of Thatôn as allegory -- The Mon paradigm and the origins of the Burma script -- The place of written Burmese and Mon in Burma's early history -- The Mon paradigm and the evolution of the Pagán temple -- The Mon paradigm and the Kyanzittha legend -- The Mon paradigm and the myth of the "downtrodden Talaing" -- Colonial officials and colonial scholars : the institutionalization of the Mon paradigm -- Without the Mon paradigm..
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 403-423) and index.
LCCN 2004029695
ISBN0824828860 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS529.2 .A86 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold