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Michael Falser has produced a splendid and doubt-less never-to-be-rivaled study of Angkor, its history, characterand design, and place in the European imagination. [...] Falser's work is a treasure trove of new information and alter-native ways to interpret and decipher the astonishing remains of an ancient culture. Prof. William Chapman, School of Architecture, The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Book Review, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 11.2020 https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003 A feat for the eyes of general readers as well as specialists are the approximately 1,400 illustrations of historic prohotohgraphs, architectural plans and samples of public media, carefully selected form different national and private archives in France and Cambodia, interwoven with photographs taken by the author himself during fieldwork in 2010 Phuong Phan, Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Kulturtechnik, Berlin. Asian Review of Books, 5.2020 https: //asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/ It is astonishing that the 150-year-long-story on how Angkor Wat gradually mutated into a truly global icon of cultural heritage was never systematically written down. It is this book that presents this story of the first time in all its depth Niem Chheng, The Phom Penh Post and SEAArch/Southeasia Archaeology, 5.2020https: //www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat

Michael Falser has produced a splendid and doubt-less never-to-be-rivaled study of Angkor, its history, characterand design, and place in the European imagination. [...] Falser's work is a treasure trove of new information and alternative ways to interpret and decipher the astonishing remains of an ancient culture. Prof. William Chapman, School of Architecture, The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Book Review, Journal of Cultural Heritage, 11.2020 https: //doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.10.003 Michael Falser's comparably massive two-volume study [is] a dauntingly detailed magnum opus. Drawing upon a wide spectrum of theoretical, historical, anthropological and archaeological literature, as well as extensive new archival material, Falser provides an exhaustive history not of the building itself, [...] but of its colonial and postcolonial afterlife. This work immediately becomes the definitive source on the subject. Prof. Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen's University, Ontario/Canada. Book Review: Unmasking Angkor Wat - A French-made Invention of Tradition. Kunstchronik, 12.2020, 604-611 https: //www.zikg.eu/forschung/publikationen/laufende-publikationen/kunstchronik/inhaltsverzeichnisse/pdf/heft-12_dezember-2020 A feast for the eyes of general readers as well as specialists are the approximately 1,400 illustrations of historic prohotohgraphs, architectural plans and samples of public media, carefully selected from different national and private archives in France and Cambodia, interwoven with photographs taken by the author himself during fieldwork in 2010. Phuong Phan, Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Kulturtechnik, Berlin. Asian Review of Books, 5.2020 https: //asianreviewofbooks.com/content/angkor-wat-a-transcultural-history-of-heritage-by-michael-falser/ It is astonishing that the 150-year-long-story on how Angkor Wat gradually mutated into a truly global icon of cultural heritage was never systematically written down. It is this book that presents this story of the first time in all its depth Niem Chheng, The Phom Penh Post and SEAArch/Southeasia Archaeology, 5.2020 https: //www.phnompenhpost.com/national/german-author-sheds-new-light-recent-history-angkor-wat Ce livre est non seulement une contribution magistrale a l'histoire contemporaine d'Angkor, mais sur un plan epistemologique plus general, il est aussi voue a devenir une reference importante dans l'etude des processus transculturels de patrimonialisation. Bernard Formoso, Moussons - Recherche en sciences humaines sur l'Asie du Sud-Est 36/2020 279-281 https: //doi.org/10.4000/moussons.6978

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Michael Falser, University of Heidelberg.

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