MONASTERY, MONUMENT, MUSEUM: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory

摘要

Maurizio Peleggi previously published Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy s Modern Image (University of Hawai'i Press, 2002), an ironic dissection of the social (political) construction of memory and a seminal text in the tradition of Ernest Renan's (1882) essay on "What is a nation?". The present book extends Peleggi's reflective gaze into memory, albeit without the sharp focus of the earlier book, in an extraordinary and wide-ranging traverse of four (or is it more?) millenia of Thailand's forgetting and contrived imagining of its origins.