Siam

Pierre Loti

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136188015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Pierre Loti, the romantic Orientalist and seductive travel writer, describes with extraordinary pictorial skill the journey from Saigon into the interior; first along the river Mekong, at the time in flood, then through the thick forest in the heart of which is buried the ruins of Angkor-Thom, with its palaces and temples.

INDEX

ADITI (in Ramayana), 85

Angkor-Thom, 65, 62–71, 109–10, 117–24

——, extent of, 62–3

——, “fig-tree of ruins” at, 67–9

——, “Gate of Victory” at, 63, 65, 117, 124

——, history of, 63–4

——, moat at, 62–3

——, reconstitution of, 109–10

——, ruins at, 65–6, 123, 127

Angkor - Vat, 54–61, 73–112, 124–9

——, at mid-day, 54–5

——, at night, 78

——, at twilight, 72

——, causeway, the great, at, 56, 72, 76

——, during a storm, 93–6

——, exterior gallery, 73, 83–7, 125–6

——, ——, bas-reliefs in, 74–5, 84–7, 125–6

——, galleries at, 91–9, 104–8

——, Holy of Holies at, 98, 105

——, plan of, 90

——, sculptures at, 89, 101, 109

Angkor-Vat, spiders at, 94, 97–8

——, staircases at, 90–2, 101, 103

——, statues of gods at, 66, 94–8, 104, 107, 111–2

——, towers of, 54–5, 72, 105–6 108–9, 111

——, windows of, 84, 91, 95–6

Annamites, 11, 20, 51,

Apsaras at Angkor-Vat, 75, 89–90, 92, 96, 99, 101–2, 109, 126, 128

—— ——, defects of, 102

—— ——, devotion of women to, 102

—— at Bayon, 121

——in corps de ballet, 156–7

——in Ramayana, 85

Architects of Angkor - Vat, limitations of, 102–3

Architectural discovery of Khmers, 103

Aunis, plain of, 171

Avenue leading to Angkor-Vat, 56, 72, 76

BAALBECK, 89

Ballerinas. See Dancing-girls

Ballet, corps de, at Pnom-Penh 128, 156–61

Bas-reliefs at Angkor-Vat, 74, 84–7, 125–6

—— ——, condition of, 86–7

—— at Bayon, 121

Bats at Angkor-Vat, 75, 83, 87–8, 94, 98–100

Bayon, 69–71, 103, 117–22

——, antiquity of, 119

——, Apsaras at, 121

——, bas-reliefs at, 121

——, dilapidation of, 118

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Author’s Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• I.
• II.
• III.
• IV.
• V.
• VI.
• VII.
• VIII.
• IX.
• X.
• XI.
• XII.
• XIII.
• Index