The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries
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....
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Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2002-07-01
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Series: | Moussons |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/2699 |