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Andaya (2008) describes maritime Southeast Asia as a region evolving from a network of centers or mandalas. Such mandalas are often described as having “centers” with a gravitation of peripheral settlements and a confluence of the sacred and the “mundane.” This centric pattern stems from the conurbations of the micro with the macro, from the regional network to building spaces. Their core administrative and peripheral nodes are organized in a centric pattern, gravitating toward, and orbiting around, a central node. There were no distinctive physical boundaries between the center and the periphery; the “center” can be part of a network, which is then a part of a larger network with its own center. The centers of these networks and subnetworks are made distinctive and identifiable structures that complemented or were built upon natural formations within the local ecology and topography. The centrality of the center is marked by a dense and profiled combination of structure, architecture, and urban space. Many of these centers have disappeared due to the perishable nature of construction and the overlayering of development as a result of colonization.
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The idea of liminality was introduced into the field of anthropology in 1909 by Arnold Van Gennep in his work Les Rites de Passage.
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Jahn Kassim, S., Ibrahim, M. (2023). From Archipelago to Architecture: The Sacred Center and the Pillared Space. In: Jahn Kassim, S., Abdul Majid, N.H., Razak, D.A. (eds) Eco-Urbanism and the South East Asian City. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1637-3_8
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