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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Main Author: Pierre-Yves Manguin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2002-07-01
Series:Moussons
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/2699