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Getting the joke. Difficult pasts and difficult sites of learning in Thailand and beyond

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To me, as an Indonesianist, or ‘Island Southeast Asianist’ as Panggah Ardiyansyah, Zainab Tahir and I would call ourselves initially in the CO-OP context, our first group visit and traveling seminar, to Thailand in January 2024, was full of unsettling encounters, the kind of encounters that confront us with a joke others find extremely funny, […]

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‘The Tragedy of Phanom Rung’ from 1971 by Hiram Woodward, under the pseudonym D.W. Ward

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In reflecting on Phanom Rung with Soumya James, we sought permission from Hiram Woodward to post this piece published in 1971 in the Bangkok Standard Magazine, which he kindly gave along with an accompanying note. Writing not long after the looting occurred, his commentary accents the immediate effects of such dislocations and destructions on cultural

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Two Ancient Khmer lintels donated by Latchford in 1971

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This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This case study will examine two Khmer lintels donated by Douglas Latchford to the British Museum (BM) in 1971. The lintels raise many unanswered questions. Where did they come from? How did they

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Pathways to the museum: tracing the acquisition history of objects in the BM’s Cambodia collection

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This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This report summarises research undertaken to trace the ownership history and transfer of certain objects in the BM’s Cambodia collection. I have focused on individual objects and groups of objects about which

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The Khmer Standing Male Divinity at the British Museum

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This case study was considered as part of a broader provenancing project. Read the summary and other case studies on the project page. This statue currently held in the stores of the British Museum (BM), is accessioned as figure (1976,1101.1) [Fig. 1]. The following case study provides insight into provenance issues stemming from the trade of

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Talking about Restitution 

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In early November 2023, an object-handling activity was conceived as part of the Festival of Social Science, a UK-wide festival led and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of UK Research and Innovation. The authors managed this object-handling activity titled “Objects on the Move”. It aimed to explain how objects function differently in diverse contexts and why objects were moved and collected.

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