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cryptic,preliterate representations of very localized microenvi-ronments by West Malaysian aborigines to small-scaleBurmese maps covering areas of over a million squarekilometers and a less detailed Thai map of the greaterpart of Asia.No extant map,so far as I am aware,datesfrom before the sixteenth century.The distribution ofknown maps by areas of provenance is very uneven.Burma(Myanmar)is the source of by far the largest cor-pus,though many of the maps from that country weredrawn by individuals who were ethnically Shans ratherthan Burmans.(Vietnam may account for even more sur-viving maps than Burma,but for purposes of this historyit is treated as part of the Sinic cultural realm rather thanof Southeast Asia;see chapter 12.)Maps from Thailandand the Malay world are,by contrast,very few.Withinmainland Southeast Asia,I know of not a single survivingnoncosmographic map from Cambodia or Laos.Simi-larly,not a single surviving traditional map has beenreported in the scholarship on Philippine cartography.1Elsewhere in the Malay world,only West Malaysia,Java,and Borneo(Kalimantan)have yielded any cartographicartifacts.Sulawesi(Celebes)may be added to the list ifwe also consider nautical charts,but they are the subjectof the following chapter.  \nThe materials considered here do not lend themselvesto any neat mode of analysis or compellingly logicalsuccession of topics.My general organizational plan isto proceed from maps of large areas through those ofever-decreasing coverage.I shall frst consider the singleThai map (though known from more than one manu-script)of near continental coverage.Next I shallexamineregional maps relating to rather extensive areas at thescale of an entire country or a major region,dealing firstwith mainland and then with insular Southeast Asia.Ishall then turn successively to route maps that also relateto extensive areas,to large-scale maps of relatively smallrural localities (those where all parts might be reachedwithin a day or so from some central location),large-scale maps of cities,and finally,architectural plans at astill larger scale.  \n# 18·Southeast Asian Geographical Maps\n\nJOSEPH E.SCHWARTZBERG  \nA MAP OF THE GREATER PART OF ASIA  \nAs noted in chapter 17 on Southeast Asian cosmography,the places depicted in the richly illustrated Thai Traiphum(Story of three worlds),while mostly belonging tothe realm of sacred myth,do merge gradually into thephysical world as known to Thais when the various recen-sions of that sacred text were written.Thus we find riversflowing out of a rather mythologized India into what isrecognizably the north of the area that is now Thailandand thence,as Thai rivers actually do,south to the Gulfof Thailand.The several intervening mountain ranges,ofwhich the Thais could not have been wholly ignorant,are simply forgotten in creating such a view.The artists'seeming willingness to ignore geographic facts shows upin other respects,notably in the Trai phum's depictingat least one river flowing south past the northern headof the gulf down the Malay Peninsula to the area ofPattani,near the border of modern Malaysia.This sug-gests a convention of using rivers as visual linking devicesin telling a story about places.If such was in fact thecase,the apparent map errors could not be properly beregarded as a sign of geographic ignorance or carto-graphic ineptitude;and it seems likely that persons view-ing the maps in the more geographic portions of theilluminated manuscript would have known enough notto take them too literally.  \nWith the information now at my disposal,I am unableto say whether any of the recensions of the Trai phumthat preceded the two Thonburi manuscripts of 1776contained geographical maps.Nor can I specify the pre-cise number of folios with such maps in the Thonburimanuscripts in Bangkok and Berlin and in later examplesin other places.2 Of those folios,as the previ","cbCaiqWqh2SWALjg","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqWqh2SWALjg","pdf",24196378,87,"English","# 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