Cultural History In Focus | “The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries” by Pierre-Yves Manguin

Oil Painting of a Birds Eye View of Ambon
1617 | Anonymous
© Rijksmuseum

The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia

Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries

by Pierre-Yves Manguin

This article is generously provided by Pierre Yves-Manguin and Moussons.

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Etched Print Illustrating the Islands of Solor, Ambon, Gunung Api and Neira
1617 - 1619 and/or 1646 | Printed in the Netherlands
© Rijksmuseum

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Etched Print Illustrating 'Arrival in Borneo 1600'
1601 - 1602 and/or 1646 | Printed in the Netherlands
© Rijksmuseum

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Bronze Standing Buddha
600-800 A.D. | South Sumatra
© Rijksmuseum

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Bronze Avalokiteshvara
600-800 A.D. | Indonesia
© Rijksmuseum

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Etched Print Illustrating Ships from the Island of Madura: A War Ship and the Galley of the Sultan of Ternate
1600 - 1601 and/or 1619 | Printed in the Netherlands
© Rijksmuseum

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Drawing of the North Coast of West Timor
1821 | Adrianus Johannes Bik | North Sulawesi
© Rijksmuseum

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Gold Signet Ring
900-1200 A.D. | Java
© Rijksmuseum

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Author | Pierre-Yves Manguin
Publisher | Presses Universitaires de Provence
Publication | Moussons, 5 | 2002, pgs. 73-99

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