Per Thongchai Winichakul’s thesis on the development of Thai nationhood, one of these objects led to the term prathet, or nation, replacing mueang, or city-state. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects that, in their “second avatar” “as-logo,” served as a unifying symbol for the diverse West Papuans, according to a 1991 chapter from Imagined Communities that paired these objects with “Census” and “Museum.”
ANSWER: maps [accept Siam Mapped or “Census, Map, Museum”; accept map-as-logo; accept word forms like mapping]
[10e] This author analyzed Siam Mapped in the chapter “Census, Map, Museum” from his book Imagined Communities.
ANSWER: Benedict Anderson [or Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson]
[10h] Pre-colonial Southeast Asian representations of space were largely centered around these constructs, which name the political sphere of influence centered around mueang like Bagan and Ayutthaya prior to the advent of centralized, border-defined nations.
ANSWER: maṇḍalas [accept mandala states or Rājamaṇḍala]
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