Stone masters : power encounters in mainland Southeast Asia /

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Stones and stone masters are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia. Recent studies on animism see animist rituals not as a mere metaphor for community or shared values, but as a way of forming and maintaining relationships with occult presences. This book features city p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: High, Holly (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press, 2022.
Temas:
Animism > Southeast Asia.
Stone > Southeast Asia > Religious aspects.
Rocks > Southeast Asia > Religious aspects.
Ethnology > Southeast Asia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Animism.
Ethnology.
Rocks > Religious aspects.
Stone > Religious aspects.
Southeast Asia > Religious life and customs.
Southeast Asia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Section I Stone Theory
  • An Introduction to Stone Masters / Holly High
  • Theorising `Stone Masters': Revisiting Paul Mus / John Clifford Holt
  • Section II Living with Mounds, Stones and Soil
  • Living with New Gods: Power Encounters in Sekong Province, Lao PDR / Holly High
  • The Dance of Life and Death: Social Relationships with Elemental Power / Courtney Work
  • The Party-State Has Come: Ritual Rupture and Cosmological Continuity on a Ridgetop in Laos / Paul-David Lutz
  • Masters of the Underground: Termite Mound Worship and the Mutuality of Chthonic and Human Beings in Thailand's Lower Northeast / Benjamin Baumann
  • Section III Pillars and State
  • Lady Luck of the City: Myth and Meaning at Vientiane's City Pillar / Holly High
  • Guardians of the Kingdom / Sally Bamford
  • From Ritual Traditions to Spirit Mediumship: The Evolution of Pillar Worship in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand / Kazuo Fukuura
  • Territory Cults and Power in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar / Klemens Karlsson
  • The Mountain, the Masters and the Nation: Enduring Power Encounters at a Temple in Contemporary Vietnam / Hang T.D. Ngd
  • Penny Van Esterik.

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