Bob Hudson(bob.hudson@usyd.edu.au) is an associate of the Archaeology Department,University of Sydney, Australia. He has been researching Bagan and other aspects of thepre-urban and early-urban archaeology of Myanmar since 1996.
關鍵詞
Bagan; Myanmar; restoration; repair; pagodas; UNESCO
摘要
The reconstruction of Myanmar's eleventh- to fourteenth-century ce capital, Bagan, has been perhaps the most radical heritage management project in modern times. At least 1,299 Buddhist temples, monasteries and stupas have been speculatively rebuilt from mounds of rubble since 1995. A further 688 damaged buildings have received major repairs. This paper considers the contrasting views of donors who wish to make merit, of the Myanmar military regime which wishes to present a national palladium, of political interest groups who are critical of the regime's motives, of heritage architects who are critical of the methods of the reconstruction project and of archaeologists and historians who have received new data to analyse.
目次
Abstract 553 Introduction 553 Background 554 Damage, repair and the UNESCO inventory 555 The 1988 regime and international opinion 556 UNESCO in the 1990s 557 Repair, restoration and reconstruction since 1995 558 The Bagan Working Database: a tool for reviewing the repair programme 560 Defining reconstruction 560 Degrees of authenticity 563 Periodizing the original construction 566 Research potential of the Database: some implications for historical studies 566 Heritage 566 Conclusion 567 Acknowledgements 568 References 568
