More Than Words : : Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali / / Richard Fox.
Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing,...
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Fox, Richard, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut More Than Words : Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali / Richard Fox. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (264 p.) : 30 b&w halftones, 3 figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography and Related Conventions -- Chapter 1. Manuscripts, Madness -- Chapter 2. Writing and the Idea of Ecology -- Chapter 3. The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters -- Chapter 4. Practice and the Problem of Complexity -- Chapter 5. Maintaining a Houseyard as a Practice -- Chapter 6. Tradition as Argument -- Chapter 7. Translational Indeterminacy -- Chapter 8. Wagging the Dog -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing-linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics-which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing-on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies-challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Balinese language Alphabet. Balinese language Social aspects. Balinese language Writing. Manuscripts, Balinese. Anthropology. Asian Studies. Religious Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW print 9781501725340 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501725364?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501725364 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501725364/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Orthography and Related Conventions -- Chapter 1. Manuscripts, Madness -- Chapter 2. Writing and the Idea of Ecology -- Chapter 3. The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters -- Chapter 4. Practice and the Problem of Complexity -- Chapter 5. Maintaining a Houseyard as a Practice -- Chapter 6. Tradition as Argument -- Chapter 7. Translational Indeterminacy -- Chapter 8. Wagging the Dog -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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