
Moore, Elizabeth Howard (19..-....)
Elizabeth Moore is a Reader in the Art & Archaeology of South East Asia and Head of the Department of Art & Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Recent and in press publications include: Early landscapes of Myanmar, River Books, Bangkok (2007); 'Astrology in Burmese Buddhist culture, Decoding an illustrated manuscript from the SOAS Archives', Orientations, October 2007:38/8: 79-85; 2007; 'The Gold Coast: Suvannabhumi? Lower Myanmar Walled Sites of the First Millennium A.D.' With San Win. Asian Perspectives. (2007) January 46/1: 202-232; ‘Buddhist narratives and the ancient topography of Dawei’ Buddha and the Sacred Mountain (ed P. Gutman).Bangkok, Silkworm Press (2008); 'Place and space in early Burma: a new look at ‘Pyu Culture’' Journal of the Siam Society (2009 forthcoming).
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Refashioning space: The Shwedagon in British Burma (Myanmar)
The Buddhist arts of Myanmar, drawing in varied concepts of direction and boundary to sacred place, have developed a richly localized vocabulary over periods of both amalgamation and conflict. The