Urban Symbolism / / edited by Peter J.M. Nas.
This volume deals with a hitherto largely neglected aspect of cities, namely the symbolic and ritual structure in which the urban community is rooted. This fascinating facet is explored in a combined effort by social anthropologists, sociologists, historians and philologists for cities like Jakarta,...
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| Superior document: | Studies in human society ; volume 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, New York ;, Köln : : Brill,, 1993. |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in human society ;
volume 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Jakarta, city full of symbols: An essay in symbolic ecology
- 3. Mirrors and the lighthouse: A search for meaning in the monuments and great works of Sukarno's Jakarta, 1960-1966
- 4. The power of symbols in the urban arena: The case of Padang (West Sumatra)
- 5. Images of a Sumatran town: Padang and the rise of urban symbolism in Indonesia
- 6. Urban rituals and symbols in Buenos Aires, 1806-1910
- 7. Signifying urban space: Vitória, Brazil. Cultural and political discourses behind urban imagery
- 8. Image as territory: Paris' Little Asia
- 9. A murder in Batavia or the ritual of power
- 10. Images of protest and the use of urban space in the 1989 Chinese People's Movement
- 11. Toto/Tokyo: Metropolis anno 17-something -19-now
- 12. Making sense of urban space in Francistown, Botswana
- 13. Bangkok as a symbol? Ideological and everyday life constructions of Bangkok
- 14. Icon, illusion and reality: Images of urbanism
- 15. The urban capital in early states: Symbols and images
- 16. Keraton and temples in Bali: The transcendental organization of rulership between centre and periphery
- 17. Glory of Batavia: The image of a colonial city through the eyes of a Javanese nobleman
- 18. Lucknow: The city of palace culture
- 19. Baghdad: The city of learning and pleasure
- 20. Kathmandu as a sacrificial arena
- 21. The circle and the square: Symbolic form and process in the city.