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| − | |Description of information= | + | |Description of information=Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. |
| − | |Description of information id=“Berlandaskan riset etnografi dan arsip tentang pulau Bali, Indonesia, “More Than Words” menantang pemahaman konvensional mengenai tekstualitas dan tulisan sebagaimana mereka terkait dengan tradisi religius di Asia Tenggara. Melalui sebuah kajian penuh nuansa atas tulisan Bali sebagaimana dipergunakan dalam ritus penyembuhan, tenung, dan bela diri, Richard Fox menelusuri tujuan dan hasrat yang bersemayam dalam pembuatan dan penggunaan manuskrip lontar, azimat, dan objek-objek bertatah aksara lainnya.” | + | |
| + | Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing—linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics—which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing—on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies—challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond. | ||
| + | |Description of information ban=Manut ring riset etnografi lan arsip ngenenin indik pulau Bali, Indonesia, “ More Than Words” nguwah pangresep manut gaguat ngenénin indik téks lan sasuratan sane mapaiketan ring tradisi religius sané wénten ring Asia Tenggara. Madasar antuk sasuratan sané muatang kawentenan indik sasuratan Bali sekadi sané kaangén ring tatamian usadha, tenung, lan pasiatan, Biography of Richard Fox nyerepang tatujon lan pikayunan sané malingga ritatkala makardi lan nganggén lontar, sasikepan lan piranti-piranti masurat aksara siosan. | ||
| + | |Description of information id=“Berlandaskan riset etnografi dan arsip tentang pulau Bali, Indonesia, “More Than Words” menantang pemahaman konvensional mengenai tekstualitas dan tulisan sebagaimana mereka terkait dengan tradisi religius di Asia Tenggara. Melalui sebuah kajian penuh nuansa atas tulisan Bali sebagaimana dipergunakan dalam ritus penyembuhan, tenung, dan bela diri, Biography of Richard Fox menelusuri tujuan dan hasrat yang bersemayam dalam pembuatan dan penggunaan manuskrip lontar, azimat, dan objek-objek bertatah aksara lainnya.” | ||
|Link=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106255130&fa=author&person_id=5894#content | |Link=http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106255130&fa=author&person_id=5894#content | ||
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| − | |Author=Richard Fox | + | |Author=Biography of Richard Fox Richard Fox |
| − | |Subject=lontar, religion, | + | |Subject=lontar, religion |
| + | |Topic=Rituals | ||
| + | |SummaryTopic=A study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, which explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. | ||
| + | |SummaryTopic id=Kajian aksara Bali yang digunakan dalam ritus penyembuhan, sihir, dan bela diri, yang mengeksplorasi tujuan dan keinginan yang terkandung dalam produksi dan penggunaan manuskrip daun lontar, jimat, dan benda-benda prasasti lainnya. | ||
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- More Than Words - Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali
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Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing—linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics—which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing—on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies—challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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