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Citing the consequences of commercially salvaged artefacts

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Zainab Tahir

Citing the consequences of commercially salvaged artefacts by Zainab Tahir The cohort’s visit in July 2024 to the Marine Heritage Gallery, a gallery managed by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries in Jakarta, sparked conversation about the complexities surrounding the display. The Gallery features over three thousand commercially salvaged artefacts, recovered from the ninth-century […]

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Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Marieke Bloembergen

Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond by Marieke Bloembergen To me, as an Indonesianist, or ‘Island Southeast Asianist’ as Panggah Ardiyansyah, Zainab Tahir and I would call ourselves initially in the CO-OP context, our first group visit and traveling seminar, to Thailand in January 2024, was full

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Drifting ships: who owns the cargo?

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Zainab Tahir

Drifting ships: who owns the cargo? by Zainab Tahir It was strikingly sunny in early January 2024 when the CO-OP cohort visited the Plai Bat II site in Buriram Province, Thailand. The site lies atop a hill in the Prakhon Chai region, a perfect location for those who seek a connection to the past. Considering

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A Visit to Phanom Rung

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Soumya James

A Visit to Phanom Rung by Soumya James Our group visited the Phanom Rung Historical Park where we saw two lintels that were stolen and thence returned. The lintels traversed through multiple cultures1 and time scales, national boundaries and destination points, and changed many hands before ultimately returning to a home that is familiar and

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Two Ancient Khmer lintels donated by Latchford in 1971

CO-OP Blog, Intern Projects / pmeychean

Two Ancient Khmer lintels donated by Latchford in 1971 by Phuy Meychean This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This case study will examine two Khmer lintels donated by Douglas Latchford to the British Museum (BM) in 1971. The lintels

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Pathways to the museum: tracing the acquisition history of objects in the BM’s Cambodia collection

2 Comments / CO-OP Blog, Intern Projects / Pim Fitzpayne

Pathways to the museum: tracing the acquisition history of objects in the BM’s Cambodia collection by Pim Fitzpayne This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This report summarises research undertaken to trace the ownership history and transfer of certain

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The Khmer Standing Male Divinity at the British Museum

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog, Intern Projects / morokothing

This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This statue currently held in the stores of the British Museum (BM), is accessioned as figure (1976,1101.1) [Fig. 1]. The following case study provides insight into provenance issues stemming from the trade of

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Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum

Leave a Comment / CO-OP Blog / Heidi Tan

Thinking with Sema Stones at the Temple Museum by Heidi Tan Our visit to Ban Sema and the temple of Wat Pho Chai Semaram in Kalasin province, was a late afternoon encounter with familiar signs of merit-making and active temple curation. An orderly layout of ancient sema stones or boundary markers (from the Pali sīmā)

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