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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| Superior document: | Brill's Southeast Asian Library, Volume 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Southeast Asian library ;
Volume 6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.