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The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices /
The Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters' examines traditional uses of writing on the Indonesian island of Bali, focusing on the power attributed to Balinese script. The approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, bringing together insights from anthropological and philological persp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Brill's Southeast Asian library ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; List of Figures and Table; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1; Introduction
- Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic; Annette Hornbacher; Chapter 2; The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters; Richard Fox; Chapter 3; 'The World is Full of Letters': Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practice in Bali; Margaret J. Wiener; Chapter 4; The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection between Script, Power and Knowledge; Annette Hornbacher; Chapter 5
- The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two TraditionsThomas M. Hunter; Chapter 6; Imposition of the Syllabary (svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Old Javano-Balinese Tradition in the Light of South Asian Tantric Sources; Andrea Acri; Chapter 7; Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone?; Helen Creese; Chapter 8; Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali; H.I.R. Hinzler; Postscript; Richard Fox; Consolidated Bibliography; Index