LAK BAN and LAK MUANG: The Ideology of Settlement Landscape in Traditional Southeast Asia

Authors

Navanath Osiri

Publication Date

2002-01-01

Abstract

This paper describes the identifying role ritual architecture plays in the construction of settlement landscapes in northern mainland Southeast Asia. Integrating ethnographic and art historical data, it develops a framework for understanding lak ban and lak muang in terms of their socio-historical development, spatical organization, ritual observances, designs, and meaning. Landscape cannot be fully understood without reference to a worldview which integrates place and space in the production of meaning. (Snead & Preucel 1999,170)

First Page

29

Last Page

39

Recommended Citation

Osiri, Navanath (2002) "LAK BAN and LAK MUANG: The Ideology of Settlement Landscape in Traditional Southeast Asia," Manusya, Journal of Humanities: Vol. 5: No. 3, Article 3.
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/manusya/vol5/iss3/3