Download or read book Keris cloth written by Susan Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Economies written by Walter E. Little and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. This volume is centered around the a number of themes textile production, textiles as trade goods, textile as symbols, textiles in tourism and textile the transnational processes. Textile Economies appeals to abroad range of scholars image in the intersection of material culture political economy, and globalization such as sociologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, Museum curators and historians. Book jacket.
Download or read book Upload written by J Lynn Hicks and published by J Lynn Hicks. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Huntress to Hunted... Jett's future depends on one race. Will she be Servile or a Warrior? The choice is clear until she learns her country wants to strip her memory and fill her with rage. But they'll have to catch her first.. This dystopian thriller will leave you breathless!
Download or read book What s the Use of Art written by Jan Mrazek and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television broadcasts of Javanese puppet theater; from Indian wedding chamber paintings to art looted by the British army from the Chinese emperor’s palace; from the adventures of a Balinese magical dagger to the political functions of classical Khmer images—the authors challenge prevailing notions of artistic value by introducing new ways of thinking about culture. The chapters consider art objects as they are involved in the world: how they operate and are experienced in specific sites, collections, rituals, performances, political and religious events and imagination, and in individual peoples’ lives; how they move from one context to another and change meaning and value in the process (for example, when they are collected, traded, and looted or when their images appear in art history textbooks); how their memories and pasts are or are not part of their meaning and experience. Rather than lead to a single universalizing definition of art, the essays offer multiple, divergent, and case-specific answers to the question "What is the use of art?" and argue for the need to study art as it is used and experienced. Contributors: Cynthea J. Bogel, Louise Cort, Richard H. Davis, Robert DeCaroli, James L. Hevia, Janet Hoskins, Kaja McGowan, Jan Mrázek, Lene Pedersen, Morgan Pitelka, Ashley Thompson.
Download or read book Visible and Invisible Realms written by Margaret J. Wiener and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history. Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which revolve around magical weapons acquired from invisible agents such as gods, spirits, and ancestors, offer an alternative understanding of Klungkung's power. Moving between Balinese and Dutch narratives and between past and present, Wiener critiques colonial accounts by recounting Balinese memories and interpretations. Her attention to history and local situations illuminates the ways in which colonialism and orientalist scholarship have obscured the power of indigenous rulers and shows how Klungkung, once Bali's paramount realm, was relegated to a peripheral corner of the Indonesian nation-state. Both as a fascinating story and as a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will interest students of colonialism, anthropology, history, religion, and Southeast Asia.
Download or read book My Laiba written by Zsolt Zsemba and published by Zsolt Zsemba. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1970’s Indonesia… Nasir, the village Dukun/Shaman has tried everything in his power to save his wife Laiba. In a last-ditch effort, he seeks out his estranged brother Jan to use his powers of black magic to save his wife. Following his brothers' instruction, he must take a virgin's life with a special Keris/Blade and bathe his wife in her blood. Unfortunately for Nasir, things drastically go sideways when the death of the girl raises more questions than Nasir was prepared for. When the girl turns out not to be a virgin, the results are disastrous. Nasir must try and save himself and others with the help of Khalid, his trusted apprentice. The two men must try and save Laiba, the village and the forest around them from the evils of Black Magic.
Download or read book The Epic of Hang Tuah written by Rosemary Robson-McKillop and published by ITBM. This book was released on 2010 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sacred Cloth Religion written by Sven Cederroth and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research i CADER 2014 written by Oskar Hasdinor Hassan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Art and Design Education Research. Gathering 72 papers illustrated with diagrams and tables, they provide state-of-the-art information on infrastructure and sustainable issues in Art and Design, focusing on Design Industrial Applications, Visual Communication and New Media, Art Education Research, Cultural Studies, and the Social Implications of Art. They also offer detailed information on innovative research trends in Design Technology and Multimedia Design, as well as a compilation of interdisciplinary findings combining the Humanities and Quality of Life in Art and Design.
Download or read book The Endless War written by Danielle L. Jensen and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth novel of the sizzling Bridge Kingdom series, one man must decide just how much he is willing to sacrifice to save the life of the woman he loves—from the New York Times bestselling author of A Fate Inked in Blood. Newly crowned as king, Keris has watched powerless as his forbidden relationship with Zarrah is revealed. But when Zarrah is imprisoned by the Empress, Keris knows there is only one way to save her: to ally with the kingdom he nearly destroyed. Imprisoned on the dreaded Devil's Island, Zarrah faces two choices: prove her loyalty to the Empress who condemned her or die a traitor. Yet as she struggles to survive among violent prisoners, Zarrah uncovers a third path: a rebellion to overthrow tyranny entwined with a destiny she must fight to claim. While the Empress plots a war with devastating consequences, Keris and Zarrah must find their way back to each other. Yet their greatest adversary is the fiery passion between them. Unless they overcome the bitterness of betrayal, their love will not be the bringer of peace but rather the fuel that turns the Endless War into an inferno. Don’t miss any of Danielle L. Jensen's Bridge Kingdom series: THE BRIDGE KINGDOM • THE TRAITOR QUEEN • THE INADEQUATE HEIR • THE ENDLESS WAR • THE TWISTED THRONE (April 8, 2025)
Download or read book Fishbones and Glittering Emblems written by Östasiatiska museet and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Traditional Javanese Batiks written by Carrie Hammes and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madison Avenue in Asia written by Michael H. Anderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dependency theory is used to analyze the significance of the rapidly expanding transnational advertising agencies as they operate in Singapore, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The American hegemony over international advertising is discussed, as is the general question of the effectiveness of foreign-influenced advertising.
Download or read book Midnight Shadows written by Garrett Kam and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent Balinese family is caught in the deadly crossfire between between opposing sides after the alleged Communist coup fails in Indonesia in 1965. Supernatural forces bring about divine retribution in this exciting tale of mysticism and morality. It looks at the reasons behind the terrible violence that engulfed the island by interweaving actual events and history with mythology, dreams and rituals.
Download or read book Anak Panglima Awang written by Harun Aminurrashid and published by ITBM. This book was released on 2011 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leaves of the Same Tree written by Leonard Y. Andaya and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region have engaged the complex issue of ethnicity. Leaves of the Same Tree takes on this concept and illustrates how historians can use it both as an analytical tool and as a subject of analysis to add further depth to our understanding of Southeast Asian pasts. Following a synthesis of some of the major issues in the complex world of ethnic theory, the author identifies two general principles of particular value for this study: the ideas that ethnic identity is an ongoing process and that the boundaries of a group undergo continual—if at times imperceptible—change based on perceived advantage. The Straits of Melaka for much of the past two millennia offers an ideal testing ground to better understand the process of ethnic formation. The straits forms the primary waterway linking the major civilizations to the east and west of Southeast Asia, and the flow of international trade through it was the lifeblood of the region. Privileging ethnicity as an analytical tool, the author examines the ethnic groups along the straits to document the manner in which they responded to the vicissitudes of the international marketplace. Earliest and most important were the Malayu (Malays), whose dominance in turn contributed to the "ethnicization" of other groups in the straits. By deliberately politicizing differences within their own ethnic community, the Malayu encouraged the emergence of new ethnic categories, such as the Minangkabau, the Acehnese, and, to a lesser extent, the Batak. The Orang Laut and the Orang Asli, on the other hand, retained their distinctive cultural markers because a separate yet complementary identity proved to be economically and socially advantageous for them. Ethnic communities are shown as fluid and changing, exhibiting a porosity and flexibility that suited the mandala communities of Southeast Asia. Leaves of the Same Tree demonstrates how problematizing ethnicity can offer a more nuanced view of ethnic relations in a region that boasts one of the greatest diversities of language and culture in the world. Creative and challenging, this book uncovers many new questions that should revitalize and reorient the historiography of Southeast Asia.
