The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : : situating scriptural practices / / edited by Richard Fox, Annette Hornbacher.
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...
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The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices / edited by Richard Fox, Annette Hornbacher. Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016. ©2016 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, tables. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Brill's Southeast Asian Library, 2213-0527 ; Volume 6 Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic / Annette Hornbacher -- 2 The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters / Richard Fox -- 3 ‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practices in Bali / Margaret J. Wiener -- 4 The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection between Script, Power and Knowledge / Annette Hornbacher -- 5 The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions / Thomas M. Hunter -- 6 Imposition of the Syllabary (svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Old Javano-Balinese Tradition in the Light of South Asian Tantric Sources / Andrea Acri -- 7 Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? / Helen Creese -- 8 Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali / H.I.R. Hinzler -- Postscript / Richard Fox -- Consolidated Bibliography / Richard Fox and Annette Hornbacher -- Index / Richard Fox and Annette Hornbacher. 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? Contributors include: Andrea Acri, Helen Creese, Richard Fox, H.I.R. Hinzler, Annette Hornbacher, Thomas M. Hunter and Margaret Wiener. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Balinese language Writing. Balinese language Alphabet. Balinese language Social and life customs. Javanese language Alphabet. Javanese language Writing. Fox, Richard, 1972- editor. Hornbacher, Annette, editor. 90-04-32681-2 Brill's Southeast Asian library ; Volume 6. |
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The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices / Brill's Southeast Asian Library, Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic / 2 The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters / 3 ‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practices in Bali / 4 The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection between Script, Power and Knowledge / 5 The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions / 6 Imposition of the Syllabary (svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Old Javano-Balinese Tradition in the Light of South Asian Tantric Sources / 7 Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? / 8 Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali / Postscript / Consolidated Bibliography / Index / |
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Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic / 2 The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters / 3 ‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practices in Bali / 4 The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection between Script, Power and Knowledge / 5 The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions / 6 Imposition of the Syllabary (svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Old Javano-Balinese Tradition in the Light of South Asian Tantric Sources / 7 Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? / 8 Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali / Postscript / Consolidated Bibliography / Index / |
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Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction – Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic / 2 The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters / 3 ‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practices in Bali / 4 The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection between Script, Power and Knowledge / 5 The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions / 6 Imposition of the Syllabary (svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Old Javano-Balinese Tradition in the Light of South Asian Tantric Sources / 7 Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? / 8 Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali / Postscript / Consolidated Bibliography / Index / |
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