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Pierre-Yves Manguin

Portrait of Pierre-Yves   Manguin

Pierre-Yves Manguin (b. 1945) is a maritime archaeologist and historian, Professor Emeritus at Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, a specialist in Funan and Srivijaya civilizations as part of of his focus on the history of the maritime façade of pre-modern Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on the study of merchant networks in the China Sea and Indian Ocean.

With a diploma in Vietnamese Language and Civilisation (INALCO, 1967) and a PhD in Maritime History (EPHE/​Sorbonne 4, 1977), he became research director in the history of South-East Asia at EHESS in 2003. He also studied maritime history (with Michel Mollat du Jourdin) and ethnology (with Georges Condominas) at Sorbonne University. As a member of Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1970 to his retirement in 2013, he spent some fifteen years in Indonesia, and later directed the EFEO research units ​“Southeast Asia : exchange, religions, state” (1997−2007) and ​“Ancient cities and spacial structuring in Southeast Asia” (2008−2011). He also coordinated the program ​“Ancient khmer space: Construction of a digital corpus of archaeological and epigraphic data” (2009−2011). He has been editor of the Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (BEFEO) since 2012.

One of the founding members of Lasema (Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde austronésien/​CNRS-UPR 297) in 1984, Pierre-Yves Manguin was Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford University in 1985, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, in 2007. Chairman of the European Association of Southeast Asian Studies (2004−2007), he collaborated between 2014 and 2019 in the ​“Maritime knowledge for China Seas project”, (ANR, EFEO and Academia Sinica) directed by Paola Calanca, co-editing the two-volume work Of Ships and Men. 

While studying the formation of political systems and urbanisation processes, he participated in multidisciplinary research programmes on settlement dynamics of Sumatra in the 1980s onward, with archaeological excavations carried out in cooperation with researchers in Indonesia and Vietnam, focusing on both merchant ships and harbor cities in both countries. His archaeological missions in Sumatra on the harbor sites of the Srivijaya period (7th-13th centuries CE), and new surveys on these sites in 2010 and 2011, led to the conclusion that George Coedès was right to place the capital of Srivijaya at Palembang, also helping to establish a solid chronology for the history of this maritime state and to demonstrate that the tradition of merchant cities in Southeast Asia dated back to the first millennium CE. Until 2007, he conducted a complementary programme on the sites of Batujaya and Cibuaya (1st-7th centuries CE), in West Java. 

For is research then focused on the site of Oc Eo in the Mekong Delta (1st-7th centuries CE), he worked with Vietnamese and French archaeologists, pursuing the work initiated by Louis Malleret in the 1930s and 1940s.

Publications

  • Les Portugais sur les côtes du Viêt-nam et du Campâ. Étude sur les routes maritimes et les relations commerciales, d’après les sources portugaises (16e, 17e, 18 siècles), Paris : Public. de l’EFEO, LXXXI, 1972, 215 p.
  • ‘L’artillerie légère nousantarienne. À propos de six canons conservés dans des collections portugaises’, Arts Asiatiques, 32, 1976, p. 233 254.
  • ‘L’introduction de l’Islam au Campa’, Bulletin de l’EFEO, 66, 1979, p. 255 – 287.
  • Note sur l’origine nautique du mot jam, Archipel, 18, 1979, p. 95 – 103.
  • [with C.R. Boxer], ​‘Miguel Roxo de Brito’s narrative of his voyage to the Raja Empat, May 1581 November 1582’, Archipel, 18, 1979, p. 175 – 194.
  • ‘The Southeast Asian Ship: An Historical Approach’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 11(2), 1980, p. 266 276.
  • ‘The Sumatran Coastline in the Straits of Bangka: New Evidence for its Permanence in Historical Times’, SPAFA Digest, 3(2), 1982, p. 24 29.
  • Nguyên Anh, Macau et le Portugal. Aspects politiques et commerciaux d’une relation privilégiée, 1773 1802, Paris : PEFEO CXXXIV, 1984, 278 p.
  • ‘Palembang et Sriwijaya : anciennes hypothèses, nouvelles recherches (Palembang Ouest)’, BEFEO, 76, 1986, p. 337 – 402.
  • ‘Shipshape Societies : Boat Symbolism and Political Systems in Insular South East Asia’, in : D.G. Marr & A.C. Milner (eds.), Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries, Singapore : Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University / Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1986, p. 187 – 213.
  • ‘Brunei Trade with Macao at the Turn of the 19th Century. A propos of a 1819 Letter from Sultan Khan Zul Alam’, Brunei Museum Journal, 6(3), 1987, p. 16 – 25.
  • ‘Pre-European Malay shipping in trade: Recent research, new prospects’, Jurnal Budaya (Kuala Lumpur), 1, 1989, p.116 – 125.
  • ‘A Mid Seventeenth Century Collection of Roteiros for Asian Waters (the Códice Castello Melhor)’, Studia (Lisboa), 48, 1989, p. 187 – 212.
  • ‘A Mid Seventeenth Century Collection of Roteiros for Asian Waters (the Códice Castello Melhor)’, Studia (Lisboa), 48, 1989, p. 187 – 212
  • ‘The Merchant and the King : Political myths of Southeast Asian coastal polities’, Indonesia (Cornell University), 52, 1991, p. 41 – 54.
  • ‘Palembang and Sriwijaya : An Early Malay Harbour-city Rediscovered’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 66(1), 1992, p. 23 – 46.
  • ‘Excavations in South Sumatra, 1988 – 1990 : New evidence for Sriwijayan sites », in : I.C. Glover (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology 1990 : Proceedings of the Third Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists.- Hull : Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, 1992, p. 63 73.
  • ‘Trading ships of the South China Sea : Shipbuilding Techniques and their Role in the Development of Asian Trade Networks’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 36, 1993, p. 253 – 280.
  • ‘The vanishing jong : Insular Southeast Asian fleets in war and trade (15th-17th centuries)’, in : A. Reid (ed.), Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era : Trade, Power, and Belief. Ithaca, London : Cornell University Press, 1993, p. 197 – 213.
  • [with Soeroso M.P. & Lucas P. Koestoro], ​‘Kota Kapur (Bangka, Indonesia) : A pre-Sriwijayan site reascertained’, in P.-Y. Manguin (ed.), Southeast Asian Archaeology 1994 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Paris, October 1994, Hull : University of Hull, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, vol.II, 1996, p. 61 – 81.
  • ‘Southeast Asian shipping in the Indian Ocean during the First Millennium AD’, in : J.-F. Salles & Himanshu Prabha Ray (eds.), Techno-archaeological Perspectives of Seafaring in the Indian Ocean, New Delhi (NISTADS) et Lyon (Maison de l’Orient), 1996, p. 181 – 198.
  • [with Jorge dos Santos Alves], O ​’Roteiro das cousas do Achem’ de D. João Ribeiro Gaio : Um olhar português sobre o norte de Samatra em finais do século XVI [Le ​’Roteiro das cousas do Achen’ de Dom João Ribeiro Gaio : Un regard portugais sur le nord de Sumatra vers la fin du 16e siècle]. Lisboa : Commissão Nacional dos Descobrimentos, 1996.
  • ‘Demografi dan tata perkotaan di Aceh pada abad 16 : Data baru menurut sebuah buku pedoman Portugis tahun 1584’ [Démographie et urbanisme à Aceh au 16e siècle : Nouvelles données d’après un Roteiro portugais de 1584], in H. Chambert-Loir & Hasan Muarif Ambary (éd.), Panggung Sejarah : Persembahan kepada Prof. Dr. Denys Lombard.- Jakarta : EFEO/​Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional/​Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1999, p. 225 – 244.
  • ‘De la ​’Grande Inde’ à l’Asie du Sud-Est : la contribution de l’archéologie’, Comptes-rendus de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 4e fasc., Nov-Dec 2000, p. 9 – 16.
  • ‘Les cités-États de l’Asie du Sud-Est côtière : de l’ancienneté et de la permanence des formes urbaines’, BEFEO, 87(1), 2000, p. 151 – 182.
  • [with Catherine Clémentin-Ojha], Un siècle pour l’Asie: L’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient 1898 – 2000, Paris : EFEO/​Les Editions du Pacifique, 2001, 237 p. English version: [with Catherine Clémentin-Ojha], A Century in Asia. The History of the École française d’Extrême-Orient 1898 – 2006. Singapore, Paris : Éditions Didier Millet / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2009, 239 p.
  • ‘Sriwijaya, entre texte historique et terrain archéologique : un siècle à la recherché d’un État évanescent’, BEFEO, 88, 2001, p. 331 – 339.
  • ‘The amorphous nature of coastal polities in Insular Southeast Asia : Restricted centres, extended peripheries’, Moussons, 5, 2002, p. 73 – 99.
  • ‘The Archaeology of the Early Maritime polities of Southeast Asia’, in P. Bellwood & I. Glover (eds.), Southeast Asia : from Prehistory to History, London : Routledge Curzon, 2004, p.282 – 313.
  • ‘Un ​‘sociologue’ parmi les orientalistes : Paul Mus à l’École française d’Extrême-Orient (1927−1937)’, in C. Goscha & D. Chandler (eds.), L’espace d’un regard : Paul Mus et l’Asie (1902−1969), Lyon, Paris : Institut d’Asie Orientale, Les Indes savantes, 2006, p.109 – 116.
  • [with Agustijanto Indrajaya], ​‘The Archaeology of Batujaya (West-Java, Indonesia) : An interim Report’, in E.A. Bacus, I.C. Glover & V.C. Pigott (eds.), Uncovering Southeast Asia’s Past. Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Singapore : NUS Press, 2006, p. 245 – 257.
  • ”Welcome to Bumi Sriwijaya’, or the building of a provincial identity in modern Indonesia’, Working Paper Series #102. Singapore, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 2008, 18 pp.
  • ‘The Archaeology of Funan in the Mekong River Delta : the Oc Eo Culture of Vietnam’, in N. Tingley (ed.) Arts of Ancient Vietnam : From River Plain to Open Sea, New York, Houston : Asia Society, Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Press, 2009, p. 100 – 118.
  • ‘Southeast Sumatra in Protohistoric and Srivijaya Times : Upstream-Downstream Relations and the Settlement of the Peneplain’, in D. Bonatz, J. Miksic, J.D. Neidel et al. (eds.), From Distant Tales : Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Highlands of Sumatra, Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, p. 434 484.
  • ‘New ships for new networks : trends in shipbuilding in the South China Sea in the 15th and 16th centuries’, in G. Wade & Sun Laichen (eds.), Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century : The China Factor, Singapore, Hong Kong : National University of Singapore Press, Hong Kong University Press, 2010, p. 333 – 358.
  • ‘Pan-Regional Responses to South Asian Inputs in Early Southeast Asia’, in B. Bellina, E.A. Bacus, T.O. Pryce & J. Wisseman Christie (eds.), 50 Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia : Essays in Honour of Ian Glover, Bangkok : River Books, 2010, p.171 – 180.
  • [with Arlo Griffiths & Véronique Degroot], Kedatuan Sriwijaya: Kajian Sumber Prasasti dan Arkeologi, pilihan artikel oleh George Cœdès, Louis-Charles Damais, Hermann Kulke dan Pierre-Yves Manguin, Jakarta : EFEO, Pusat Arkeologi Nasional, Komunitas Bambu, 2011, 455 p.
  • [with Agustijanto Indrajaya], ​‘The Batujaya Site : New Evidence of Early Indian Influence in West Java’, in P.-Y. Manguin, A. Mani & G. Wade (eds.), India and Southeast Asia : Reflections on Cross-cultural Exchange, Singapore, New Delhi : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Nalanda Sriwijaya Series 2), Manohar, 2011, p. 113 – 136.
  • [ed. with A. Mani et G. Wade], Early Interactions between South and Southeast Asia : Reflections on Cross-Cultural Exchange, Singapore, New Delhi : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series 2), Manohar, 2011, 513 p.
  • ‘The Maldives connection : pre-modern Malay World shipping across the Indian Ocean’, in C. Radimilahy and N. Rajaonarimanana (eds.), Civilisations des mondes insulaires. Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Claude Allibert. Paris : Éditions Karthala, 2011, p. 261 – 284.
  • ‘From lancaran to ghurab and ghali: Mediterranean impact on war vessels in Early Modern Southeast Asia’, in Geoff Wade et Li Tana (ed.), Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past, Singapore: Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, p. 146 – 182.
  • Late Mediaeval Asian Shipbuilding in the Indian Ocean : A Reappraisal’, in Om Prakash (ed.), The Trading World of the Indian Ocean, 1500 – 1800, Calcutta : Centre for Studies in Civilisations (Project on History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilisation, Vol. III, Part 7), 2012, p. 597 – 629.
  • [with Eric Bourdonneau], ​‘Avec Pelliot, ​“le long de l’abîme’, in Jean-Pierre Drège (ed.), Paul Pelliot : de l’histoire à la légende, Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2013, p. 29 – 43.
  • ‘Early Coastal States of Southeast Asia: Funan and Śrīvijaya’, in John Guy (ed.) Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2014, p. 111 – 115, 278.
  • ‘Des orientalistes en Orient : l’École française d’Extrême-Orient au Vietnam (1900−1957)’, in Hoai Hung Aubert-Nguyen et Michel Espagne (ed.), Le Vietnam : Une histoire de transferts culturels, Paris, Demopolis, 2014, p. 115 – 132.
  • [with Judith Cameron & Agustijanto Indrajaya], ​‘Asbestos textiles from Batujaya (West Java, Indonesia): Further evidence for early long-distance interaction between the Roman Orient, Southern Asia and island Southeast Asia’, BEFEO 101, 2015, p. 159 – 176.
  • [with Paola Calanca & Eric Rieth], ​‘Of ships and men — 船与人’, Studies of Underwater Archaeology — 水下考古学研究, 2, 2016, p. 259 – 392.
  • ‘Austronesian Shipping in the Indian Ocean: From Outrigger Boats to Trading Ships’, in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World, Basingstoke, Hampshire: PalgraveMacmillan, 2016, p. 51 – 76.
  • ‘Transpeninsular routes in the light of new finds in coastal and nautical archaeology’, in Wannasarn Noonsuk (ed.), Peninsular Siam and its neighbourhoods: Essays in memory of Dr. Preecha Noonsuk, Nakhon Si Thammarat: Cultural Council of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, 2017, p. 47 – 54.
  • ‘L’Insulinde et la mer : avant l’arrivée des Occidentaux’, in Michel Balard (dir.), La mer dans l’histoire : Le Moyen Âge, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2017, p. 891 – 903.
  • ‘Dialogues between Southeast Asia and India: a necessary reappraisal’, in Anna L. Dallapiccola & Anila Verghese (eds.), India and Southeast Asia: Cultural Discourses, Mumbai, K.C. Kama Oriental Institute, 2017, p. 23 – 36.
  • ‘At the origins of Sriwijaya: The emergence of state and city in southeast Sumatra’, in Noboru Karashima and Masashi Hirosue (ed.), Early State Formation and Social Integration: Chiefdom to State, Tokyo, New Delhi, Toyo Bunko, Manohar Publishers, 2017, p. 89 – 114.
  • ‘Sewn Boats of Southeast Asia: the stitched-plank and lashed-lug tradition’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 48(2), 2018 p. 400 – 415.
  • [with Frank Braemer, Véronique Darras, Sophie Méry, Xavier Gutherz], ​‘L’archéologie française à l’étranger : 40 ans d’informations et d’échanges’, in Les nouvelles de l’archéologie, enjeux actuels, Les Nouvelles de l’archéologie, 157 – 158 (Les Nouvelles ont 40 ans !), 2019, p. 26 – 37.
  • ‘Protohistoric and early historic exchange in the Eastern Indian Ocean: A re-evaluation of current paradigms’, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, vol. I: Commercial Structures and Exchanges, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan, 2019, p. 99 – 120.
  • ‘The transmission of Vaiṣṇavism across the Bay of Bengal: Trade networks and state formation in early historic Southeast Asia’, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, vol. II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave McMillan, 2019, p. 51 – 83.
  • ‘Srivijaya, une thalassocratie malaise’, in Sylvain Gouguenheim (dir.), Les empires médiévaux, Paris: Perrin, 2020, p. 367 – 390.
  • ‘Ships and Shipwrecks in the Pre-Modern Indian Ocean’, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020, 22 p.
  • ‘Srivijaya: Trade and Connectivity in the Pre-modern Malay World’, Journal of Urban Archaeology, 3, 2021, p. 87 – 100.