The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters
situating scriptural practices
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Word Count
60,250 words, Guess
Page Count
241 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-109004326812
- ISBN-139789004326811
- Library of Congress Control Number2016028029
- OCLC Control Number951955828
- Better World Books9789004326811
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27226355M
Classifications
- DDC499/.223811
- LCCPL5162 .M28 2016
- LCCPL5162.M28 2016
Description
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 perspectives. Scholars have long recognized a gap between the practices of philological interpretation and those of the Javano-Balinese textual tradition. The question is what impact this gap should have on our conception of 'the text'. Of what relevance, for example, are the uses to which Balinese script has been put in the context of ceremonial rites? What ideas of materiality, power and agency are at work in the production and preservation of palm-leaf manuscripts, inscribed amulets and other script-bearing instruments?
Subjects
Series Statement
- Brill's Southeast Asian Library -- volume 6
- Brill's Southeast Asian library -- v. 6.
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