An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal bookImagined Communities has
Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occ
In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a dem
