The Life of a Balinese Temple : : Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village / / Hildred Geertz.
Should a temple be seen as a work of art, its carvers as artists, its worshipers as art critics and patrons? What is a temple (and its art) to the people who make and use it? Noted anthropologist Hildred Geertz attempts to answer these and other questions in this unique look at transformations in ma...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) :; illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Terms, Names, and Spelling
- Preface
- Part I. Work
- 1. A Temple and an Anthropologist
- 2. Those Who Carry the Temple on Their Heads
- 3. The Purposes of Pura Désa Batuan
- Part II. Works
- 4. The Age of the Balinese Rajas (before 1908)
- 5. The Age of the Dutch Rajas (1908-1942)
- 6. Forms, Meanings, and Pleasures
- 7. The Age of the Last of the Dutch Rajas (1948-1950)
- 8. The Age of Freedom (1950-1967)
- 9. The Age of the Tourists (1966-1995)
- Afterword
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author