The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast - Couverture rigide

Ross, Laurie Margot

 
9789004311374: The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9004311378 ISBN 13 : 9789004311374
Editeur : Brill, 2016

Synopsis

In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic
Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that canonical prohibitions on fashioning idols and imagery prove that masks are mere relics of indigenous beliefs that Muslim travelers could not eradicate. Making use of archives, oral histories, and the performing objects themselves, Ross traces the mask's trajectory from a popular entertainment in Cirebon--once a portal of global exchange--to a stimulus for establishing a deeper connection to God in late colonial Java, and eventual links to nationalism in post-independence Indonesia.

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À propos de l?auteur

Laurie Margot Ross, Ph.D. (2009), University of California, Berkeley, is a researcher, curator, and educator of Islamic visual culture and performance, based in New York. She was an SSRC Transregional fellow at Cornell University and also taught at UC Berkeley.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004311378
ISBN 13 
9789004311374
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
392
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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