Abstract
Abstract Politics and history in the Theravada Buddhist polities of mainland Southeast Asia are linked by a subtle interplay of images and silence, language and ritual that is alien to Western discourse styles and scholarly divisions of labor. Theravada genres of power and communication cross-cut Western categories of art, politics, literature, economics and religion. As a result, Western analytic paradigms are inadequate in their rendering of Theravada historical events, unable to account for the aesthetic dimensions of power.
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