Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Field of Glory
- Ist Teil von
- Lords of Things, 2002, p.94
- Ort / Verlag
- University of Hawaii Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2002
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- With Dusit Park and the princely mansions built nearby, the Siamese royal elite acquired a private space at once more comfortable and more suited to their self-image as civilized individuals than the cramped Grand Palace. The palace, however, retained during the early years of the twentieth century its symbolic preeminence as the realm’s “exemplary center,” and Bangkok continued to be lacking in what David Cannadine calls “sites of consensual pageantry.”¹ Traditional Siamese state ceremonies were performed in or around the sacral spaces of the royal palace and the temples and, most characteristically, along the river; this was the case of
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0824824482, 9780824824488Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt6wqs1b_10
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anniversaries, Anthropology, Applied anthropology, Applied arts, Architecture, Arts, Behavioral sciences, Buildings, Celebrations, Ceremonial objects, Ceremonies, Cultural anthropology, Cultural customs, Dwellings, Equestrian statues, Government, Government officials, Heads of state, Human societies, Kings, Monarchism, Monarchs, Monarchy, Palaces, Plastic arts, Political regimes, Political science, Political systems, Princes, Residential buildings, Rites of passage, Rituals, Royalty, Sculpture, Sculpture in the round, Social classes, Social stratification, Social structures, Sociology, Statues, Thrones, Upper class, Visual arts