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The spirit of things : materiality and religious diversity in Southeast Asia
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- Creator
- Julius Bautista, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780877277880, 0877277885, 9780877277886, 9780877277583, 0877277583
- OCLC
- ocn815636158
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Preface : motion, devotion, and materiality in Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista -- Introduction : materiality in a problematically plural Southeast Asia / Julius Bautista and Anthony Reid -- Icon, iconoclasm, art commodity : are objects still agents in Vietnam? / Laurel Kendall, Vũ Thị Thanh Tâm, and Nguyêʼn Thị Thu Hương -- Of Proton, Mercedes, and MPVs : car culture among middle-class Malays in suburban Malaysia / Johan Fischer -- A spirit medium as architect : Caodaism's visual theology / Janet Hoskins -- Material religion and ethnic identity : Buddhist visual culture and the Burmanization of the eastern Shan state / Klemens Karlsson -- Holy water and material religion in a pilgrimage shrine in Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- "The land of the great image" and the test of time : the making of Buddha images in Arakan (Burma/Myanmar) / Alexandra de Mersan -- The problem with "empty crosses" : thinking through materiality in Bidayuh religious practices / Liana Chua -- Dressing for modern war in old-fashioned magic : traditional protective charms of Thailand's forces in the Vietnam War / Richard A. Ruth -- Concentrating people and endogenous potency at the Southeast Asian periphery : the case of the longan house altar of the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo / Kenneth Sillander -- Becoming active/active becoming : Prince Vessantara scrolls and the creation of a moral community / Sandra Cate and Leedom Lefferts -- The potency of poon : religious sculpture, performativity, and the Mahal na Senyor of Lucban / Cecilia De La Paz -- Bodies for the gods : image worship in Chinese popular religion / Margaret Chan