Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia
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Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia
W037059 | $32.00
Edited by Holly High. NUS Press, National University of Singapore, 2022.
344 pp. Minimally illustrated (all b&w). 23 x 15 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9789813251700
Stones and stone masters are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia. Recent studies on animism see animist rituals not as a mere metaphor for community or shared values, but as a way of forming and maintaining relationships with occult presences. _x001F_is book features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have been moved to shrines, as well as the territorial cults which can form around them. _x001F_e contributors extend and deepen the recent literature on animism to form a new analytical perspective on these cults across mainland Southeast Asia. Not just a collection of exemplary ethnographies, Stone Masters is also a deeply comparative volume that develops its ideas through a meshwork of regional entanglements, parallels, and di_x001E_erences, before entering into a dialogue with debates on power, mastery, and the social theory of animism globally.
Subject Headings: Asian Art (traditional) ; Non-Western Art -- Sculpture --
W037059 | $32.00
Edited by Holly High. NUS Press, National University of Singapore, 2022.
344 pp. Minimally illustrated (all b&w). 23 x 15 cm. In English. Paperbound.
ISBN 9789813251700
Stones and stone masters are an important focus of animist religious practice in Southeast Asia. Recent studies on animism see animist rituals not as a mere metaphor for community or shared values, but as a way of forming and maintaining relationships with occult presences. _x001F_is book features city pillars, statues, megaliths, termite mounds, mountains, rocks found in forests, and stones that have been moved to shrines, as well as the territorial cults which can form around them. _x001F_e contributors extend and deepen the recent literature on animism to form a new analytical perspective on these cults across mainland Southeast Asia. Not just a collection of exemplary ethnographies, Stone Masters is also a deeply comparative volume that develops its ideas through a meshwork of regional entanglements, parallels, and di_x001E_erences, before entering into a dialogue with debates on power, mastery, and the social theory of animism globally.
Subject Headings: Asian Art (traditional) ; Non-Western Art -- Sculpture --
