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Title

The art of rice : spirit and sustenance in Asia / Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao ... [et al.].

Author

Hamilton, Roy W.

Publication

Los Angeles : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c2003.

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Additional Authors

University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Description

552 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 31 cm.

Subject

• Rice > Social aspects > Asia
• Rice > Asia > Folklore
• Rice planting rites > Asia
• Rice gods > Asia
• Asia > Social life and customs
• Asia > Religious life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-538) and index.

Contents

Introduction / Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME -- Labor, ritual, and the cycle of time / Roy W. Hamilton -- Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand / Suriya Smutkupt, Pattana Kitiarsa -- Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal / Gisèle Krauskopff -- Rice culture in Manipur, India / Mutua Bahadur -- The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank / Stephen C. Headley -- Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam / Vi Văn An, Eric Crystal -- PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS -- The granary: a home for the rice spirits / Roy W. Hamilton -- The granary of the Tharu of Nepal / Kurt W. Meyer, Pamela Deuel -- PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION -- Rice festivals: community and celebration ; The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines / Roy W. Hamilton -- The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali / David J. Stuart-Fox -- Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand / Roy W. Hamilton, Thitipol Kanteewong -- The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand / Ruth Gerson -- The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia / Eric Crystal -- Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village / Vũ Hông Thuât, Roy W. Hamilton -- Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan / Toshiyuki Sano, Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE -- The Goddess of Rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India / Nanditha Krishna -- Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali / David J. Stuart-Fox -- PART 5: SACRED FOOD -- Sacred food / Roy W. Hamilton -- Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal / Sohini Ray -- The art of rice in Balinese offerings / Francine Brinkgreve -- Sake in Japanese art and culture / Mariko Fujita -- PART 6: STRAW MATTERS -- Straw matters / Roy W. Hamilton -- PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE -- Rice, self, and state / Roy W. Hamilton -- Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India / Nanditha Krishna -- Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period / Toshiyuki Sano -- Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture / Francesca Bray -- PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE -- The future of rice / Roy W. Hamilton -- Let's hope the bile is good / Aurora Ammayao, Gene Hettel -- Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java / Rens Heringa -- The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play / Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono -- Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities / Kwang-Kyu Lee -- Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons / Michael Reinschmidt.

Call Number

*OAL+ 04-7281

ISBN

• 0930741986
• 0930741978 (hard)

LCCN

2003058024

OCLC

52623708

Author

Hamilton, Roy W.

Title

The art of rice : spirit and sustenance in Asia / Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao ... [et al.].

Imprint

Los Angeles : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-538) and index.

Added Author

University of California, Los Angeles. Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Research Call Number

*OAL+ 04-7281