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Words across Space and Time: An Analysis of Lexical Items in Khmer Inscriptions, Sixth–Fourteenth Centuries CE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2007

Eileen Lustig ,
Damian Evans  and
Ngaire Richards
Eileen Lustig
Affiliation:
The University of Sydney. She may be contacted at: eileen@environmentalmanagement.com.au
Damian Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He may be contacted at: evans@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au
Ngaire Richards
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. She may be contacted at ngaire@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

The study presents a relational database of words referring to material items and institutional processes in over 700 Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian inscriptions, from the sixth to the fourteenth centuries CE. The lexical items within the database have been spatially and temporally referenced, and a geographic information system (GIS) is used to show trends and anomalies over time and space in the distributions of temple sites; key items and materials; and the roles of the rulers, the founders, the donors and temple workers. The current study identifies changes in the socio-economic institutions and relationships within Khmer society through the Pre-Angkorian and into the Angkorian period in Cambodia.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 1 - 26
Copyright
2007 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

This research was made possible by the generous financial assistance provided by the Australian Research Council (grants DP0211012 and DP0558130), the Greater Angkor Project under the direction of Roland Fletcher, the Carlyle Greenwell Bequest and the Iain Cameron Travel Grant. The authors gratefully acknowledge the practical assistance and advice provided throughout several field seasons by the École Française d'Extrême-Orient and its Director in Siem Reap, Christophe Pottier, and by the APSARA Authority. Thanks also to the University of Sydney's Archaeological Computing Laboratory and its Director, Ian Johnson, for the free use of facilities over a three-year period; to Travis Bransgrove for technical assistance with manipulating the database into a mappable form; and to Michael Vickery, Dominique Soutif, Shaun Mackey, Dan Penny and Martin Polkinghorne for commenting on drafts of this paper. The authors also benefited considerably from input received at the 2005 conference on Contemporary Research on Pre-Angkor Cambodia organised by the Centre for Khmer Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and in particular the comments of Gérard Diffloth.