Angkorian Khmer Empire; monumentality; landscape archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Networks of Power: Sandstone Temple Production in the Provinces of the Angkorian Khmer Empire (2018)
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Anthropological research suggests that early states and empires frequently relied on state-sponsored building projects to produce networks of state control and identity on the landscape. The production and use of monumental architecture, however, can also be influenced by local agency, resilience and/or resistance, and degrees of socio-political autonomy. Rather than a homogenous blanket of state/imperial power, the result is a mosaic of core state control and local choices across the landscape....