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The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom Book

The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
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  • The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
  • Written by author James S. Duncan
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, May 2005
  • Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
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List of figures; Preface; Glossary of terms; A note on transliteration;

Part I. Introduction:

1. Introduction;

Part II. Towards an Interpretive Frame:
2. Landscape as a signifying system;
3. The discursive field of Kandyan kingship;
4. Concretizing the Sakran discourse: from landscape of the gods to landscape of the hero-kings;
5. The Kandyan landscape, 1312-1815;

Part III. The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kandy:
6. From discourse to landscape: a kingly reading;
7. From landscape to civic ritual: a kingly reading;
8. From landscape to discourse: contestatory readings and material interests;
9. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; List of references; Index.


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