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Finding distinguishing characteristics of Southeast Asia has proven to be a significant challenge: by focusing on the encounters which primarily colonial British writers had with the region’s state rulers, it becomes possible to recover the early conceptualizations of regional governance. The writings of Henry Yule, Anna Leonowens, Sir George Scott, and Hugh Clifford all document the “orientalist” features of Western discourses because these writers at once were affected by it as they contributed to it. The discourse about royalty and rulers was central to many of the tropes associated with orientalism, but also with ‘ornamentalism’. David Cannadine has shown that ornamentalism (in which British conceptualized many imperial practices in relation to their own hierarchical conceptions of society) was as critical a feature of imperial outlook as was orientalism. The need to understand ruling elites was at the heart of the imperialist project. Tracing the ways in which colonizing powers represented the region’s ruling elite offers a new avenue for recognizing the affinities of the regional experience. Beyond orientalism, the paper explores questions about the representation and presentation of authority. Understanding the conceptualizations of rulers is connected to the comprehension of social organization—including representations of “traditional society.”

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[ Abstract ]
 Ⅰ. Introduction
 Ⅱ. Phayre and Yule in Burma: Describing the Remote Monarchy
 Ⅲ. Anna Leonowens: the Intimate look at the Mongkut’s Court
 Ⅳ. Hugh Clifford: Fictionalizing Monarchical Narratives
 Ⅴ. From Orientalism to Ornamentalism?
 Ⅵ. Conclusion
 References

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저자

• Stephen Keck [ Academic Director and Professor of History, Emirates Diplomatic Academy ]

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• 간행물명

  수완나부미 [Suvannabhumi]

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  2092-738X

• 수록기간

  ~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 309 DDC 306