This article surveys epigraphy, Malay literary texts, and the archaeological data to better understand the socio-spatial structuration process of western Southeast Asia’s ancient political systems, more specifically, Sriwijaya (7th-13th cent.) and its successor, the Melaka Sultanate (15th-17th cent.). Representations of their polities, as offered by the Malays themselves in a variety of literary genres, all allude to the centre and peripheries of their city-states, as well as to the movements of their fleets, construed as metaphors of the whole social group, which provide a graphic illustration of the centripetal forces that structure them both politically and economically. The central places of these harbour-based city-states are entities ...
Ancient Kedah was a polity located in the Malay Peninsula that have been closely integrated into t...
Laut Sulawesi, or the Celebes Sea, is a basin enclosed to the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Mind...
The civilization of South Kedah (Malaysia) was closely linked, from the 5th to the 14th centuries A....
Pierre-Yves Manguin The city-states of coastal Southeast Asia On the ancientness and permanence of u...
This article applies a spatial analysis to the study of Sumatran political culture by undertaking a ...
This paper attempts to reconstruct the famed city of Melaka at its height in the 15th and 16th centu...
From the very beginning of the Christian era, the political destiny of the Malay Peninsula had been ...
This article explores maritime diplomacy as a relatively new field of research in the maritime histo...
In a previous article, processes of early state formation of the epigraphically well-documented late...
This paper attempts to reconstruct the famed city of Melaka at its height in the 15th and 16th cent...
Liquid Territory examines Indonesian Sama people's engagements with maritime space and their represe...
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, with more than six hundred million populations, is home to mill...
The article explores Islam as an element of the social and symbolic formations created in the contex...
The development of maritime activities in Southeast Asia in the “Age of Commerce” was strongly suppo...
The Malay civilisation in the past, located in the Malay Archipelago, was a maritime civilisation, b...
Ancient Kedah was a polity located in the Malay Peninsula that have been closely integrated into t...
Laut Sulawesi, or the Celebes Sea, is a basin enclosed to the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Mind...
The civilization of South Kedah (Malaysia) was closely linked, from the 5th to the 14th centuries A....
Pierre-Yves Manguin The city-states of coastal Southeast Asia On the ancientness and permanence of u...
This article applies a spatial analysis to the study of Sumatran political culture by undertaking a ...
This paper attempts to reconstruct the famed city of Melaka at its height in the 15th and 16th centu...
From the very beginning of the Christian era, the political destiny of the Malay Peninsula had been ...
This article explores maritime diplomacy as a relatively new field of research in the maritime histo...
In a previous article, processes of early state formation of the epigraphically well-documented late...
This paper attempts to reconstruct the famed city of Melaka at its height in the 15th and 16th cent...
Liquid Territory examines Indonesian Sama people's engagements with maritime space and their represe...
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, with more than six hundred million populations, is home to mill...
The article explores Islam as an element of the social and symbolic formations created in the contex...
The development of maritime activities in Southeast Asia in the “Age of Commerce” was strongly suppo...
The Malay civilisation in the past, located in the Malay Archipelago, was a maritime civilisation, b...
Ancient Kedah was a polity located in the Malay Peninsula that have been closely integrated into t...
Laut Sulawesi, or the Celebes Sea, is a basin enclosed to the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Mind...
The civilization of South Kedah (Malaysia) was closely linked, from the 5th to the 14th centuries A....