A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories
A crosscultural, multidisciplinary, study on water, its economic and social impact, and its symbolism.
Books Books Chasses au tigre et a l'éléphant: un hiver au Cambodge / A Winter in Cambodia
One of the first published travel accounts from French explorers at the end of the 19th century, with hunting anecdotes...
Books Comment j'ai parcouru l'Indo-Chine: Birmanie, États shans, Siam, Tonkin, Laos
A European woman's view on Southeast Asia at the turn of the 20th century
Books Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam
An early account of Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodial included in this compendium on the Siamese Kingdom in the 1830s-1850s.
Publications Did Traditional Cultures Live in Harmony with Nature? Lessons from Angkor, Cambodia
Far from the idyllic vision of an intrinsically 'eco-friendly' pre-industrial world, how the water resources management in Angkor impacted the...
Books En sampan sur les lacs du Cambodge et a Angkor
A colorful description of Cambodia, its geography and its people at the turn of the century.
Publications Fish Scenes, Symbolism, and Kingship in the Bas-Reliefs of Angkor Wat and the Bayon
Follow the fish: what fish representations in Angkorean bas-reliefs can tells us about ancient history.
Books Five Years in Siam, From 1891 to 1896, Vol II
Second volume of a remarkable account of the Siamese, Cambodian and Laotian societies, geographical surveys and mining explorations.
Books Henri Mouhot, premier explorateur du Laos (1826-1861)
A documented profile of the later-acclaimed explorer, who had died in Laos and whose fame had not been yet established.
Books Lumieres d'Orient / Eastern Lights
From Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Madurai (South India) and Canton (Guanghzou), an inspiring travelogue towards Angkor, with a magnificient description, and...
Publications Notes on the Antiquities and Natural History of Cambodia
These informative notes stand among the earliest descriptions of Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodia by Western travelers.
Publications Notes sur la peche du Tonli-Sap (lac du Cambodge) | Notes on Tonle Sap Fishing
A detailed description of fishing activities and techniques in the largest lake of Southeast Asia at the end of the...
Publications Notice sur le Royaume de Khmer ou de Kambodge
The earliest contribution on Angkor published in an European scientific journal by a Southeastasian scholar.
Books Nouvelle géographie universelle, La terre et les hommes, VIII: L'Inde et l'Indo-Chine
The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.
Publications Reconfiguring Kingdoms: the end of Angkor and the emergence of Early Modern period Cambodia
Spatial and methodological suggestions for a renewed study of Angkor decline and the transition to early modern Cambodia.
Publications Report of an Expedition Made into Southern Laos and Cambodia in the Early Part of the Year 1866
'British spy' or first adventurous British tourist in Angkor? A young consular official's lively report of photographer John Thomson's journey.
Publications Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits: Water Cosmologies, Gender, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia
The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.
Publications The Ruins of Angkor
A 1931 account of Angkor, "the city of mystery".
Books Tonle Sap: The Heart of Cambodia's Natural Heritage
A geographical, historical, ecological survey of the 'Great Lake'.
Books Troubling the Water: a dying lake and a vanishing world in Cambodia
A poignant -- albeit sometimes heavy on dystopia -- depiction of the ecological and human landscape of the "Great Lake"...
Publications Unearthing an Atlantean Myth in Angkor
Unearthing an Atlantean myth in Angkor: geoarchaeological investigation of the ‘underwater road’ crossing the Tonle Sap Lake