Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters

Situating Scriptural Practices

AvRichard Fox

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-20
Mått:155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:524 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Southeast Asian Library
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004326811

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Richard Fox, Ph.D. (2002) School of Oriental and African Studies (London), is a member of the Special Research Initiative on Material Text Cultures (SFB 933) at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research focuses on religion, media and performance in South and Southeast Asia.Annette Hornbacher, Ph.D. (1993) Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute für Ethnologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Her ethnographic research has focused on Indonesia, and especially on Bali, where she investigated ritual and theatrical performance as kinaesthetic cosmological knowledge.

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List of illustrations1. Introduction—Balinese Practices of Script and Western Paradigms of Text: An Anthropological Approach to a Philological Topic - Annette Hornbacher2.The Meaning of Life, or How to Do Things with Letters - Richard Fox3.‘The World is Full of Letters’: Graphic Ideologies, Graphic Technologies, and Transformative Practice in Bali - Margaret J. Wiener4.The Body of Letters: Balinese Aksara as an Intersection Between Script, Power and Knowledge - Annette Hornbacher5.The Medium is the Message: Chirographic Figures in Two Traditions -Thomas M. Hunter6. Imposition of the Syllabary (mātṛkā/svaravyañjana-nyāsa) in the Javano-Balinese Tradition in the light of South Asian Tantric Sources - Andrea Acri7. Im-Materiality: Where Have All the Akṣara Gone? - Helen Creese8. Visible and Invisible Script Used at Consecrations of Buildings in Bali - H.I.R. Hinzler9. Postscript - Richard FoxBibliographyIndex