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Volume One of the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeological Index introduces an international project initiated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden and Amsterdam, to compile and maintain a bibliographic database documenting publications on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. An annotated bibliography extracted from the database, of which this volume is the first, will be published annually. The work is being carried out jointly between the IIAS, the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology (PGIAR) in Colombo, the SEAMEO Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFA) in Bangkok, scholars in India and Indonesia and, for future volumes, other parts of South and Southeast Asia.
Based on the work of twenty editors and researchers, this volume contains over 1,300 entries that describe monographs, articles in monographs, articles in periodicals including reviews and PhD dissertations in Asian and European languages which were published in 1996 and 1997. The records are arranged geographically and according to subject: Pre- and protohistory, historical archaeology, ancient and modern art history, material culture, epigraphy and palaeography, numismatics and sigillography. Use of the bibliography is facilitated by teh inclusion of an author index, a geographical index and a subject index. In a format that will be continued in subsequent volumes, two articles precede the central bibliographic section. In a format that will be continued in subsequent volumes, two articles precede the central bibliographic section. In the first, Professor Edi Sedyawati discusses publications on art and archaeology written in Indonesian between 1977 and 1997. In the second, Professor Karel R. Kooij participated in the ongoing debate in South Asian history on meaning in early buddhist art, which also pertauns to the more general problem of the 'limits of interpretation'.
See in terms of globalization and world heritage, the opening by the ABIA Index of an international network for the academic field of archaelogy and art history in not a luxury but a necessity, one that will preserve the rich cultural 'memory' it records and make it accessible for future generations. As an on-going project of the greatest significance, the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index will make the scholarly world familiar with the art-historical and archaeological work that is done at academic institutions and by scholars all over the world.
KAREL R. VAN KOOIJ is professor of South Asian Art and Material Culture at the Kern Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is a specialist in Hindu and Buddhist Iconography.
Preface
Editorial
Call for Bibliographic Information
Spelling and Romanization
List of Periodicals
ARTICLES
Research by Indonesian Archaelogists 1977-1997
No Sign of the Buddha: Recent Viewpoints on Meaning in Early Buddhist Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
South and Southeast Asia
South Asia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Maldives
Southwest Asia - as related to South Asia
Central Asia - as related to South Asia
East Asia - as related to South Asia
South east Asia
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
The Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
East Asia - as related to South Asia
The Pacific - as related to Southeast Asia
INDEXES
Author Index
Geographical Index
Subject Index
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