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Review: Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage
Maurizio Peleggi
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Book Review| June 01 2021 Review: Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage Michael Falser Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage Volume 1, Angkor in France: From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions Volume 2, Angkor in Cambodia: From Jungle Find to Global Icon Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2020, 508 and 642 pp., 1,400+ illus. $198.99/€172.95 (cloth), ISBN 9783110335729 Maurizio Peleggi Maurizio Peleggi National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021) 80 (2): 237–239. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.2.237 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maurizio Peleggi; Review: Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2021; 80 (2): 237–239. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.2.237 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search It is not easy to do justice in a necessarily concise review to a tour de force of a book such as Michael Falser's Angkor Wat, with its two large-format volumes totaling 1,150 pages (printed in small typeface) and containing more than 1,400 illustrations, mostly black-and-white but also with color plates at the end of each volume. Falser examines the material and discursive configuration of the religious monument of Angkor Wat in Cambodia by means of archaeological, curatorial, and representational strategies as a world-renowned architectural masterpiece and key symbol of Khmer identity since the late nineteenth century. To investigate these strategies, Falser employs the analytical lenses of critical theory, postcolonial studies, and heritage studies (or, better, “critical” heritage studies, as per the recently adopted qualification). Built in the second quarter of the twelfth century as a cosmic temple dedicated to Shiva and subsequently turned into a Buddhist monastery at... You do not currently have access to this content.