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The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices
- Title
- The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices / edited by Richard Fox, Annette Hornbacher.
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xii, 241 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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?
- Series Statement
- Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; volume 6
- Uniform Title
- Brill's Southeast Asian library ; v. 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5692
- ISBN
- 9789004326811
- 9004326812
- LCCN
- 2016028029
- OCLC
- 951955828
- Title
- The materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices / edited by Richard Fox, Annette Hornbacher.
- Publisher
- Leiden : Brill, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Southeast Asian Library ; volume 6Brill's Southeast Asian library ; v. 6.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Fox, Richard, 1972- editor.Hornbacher, Annette, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Materiality and efficacy of Balinese letters : situating scriptural practices. Leiden : Brill, [2016] 9789004326828
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5692