The Mahabharata from Indonesia: without individual title
Author : Heroesoekarto
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category :
ISBN :
Focus on Indonesia
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Indonesia
ISBN :
Book Description
Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures
Author : Samer Akkach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004499482
Book Description
Naẓar: Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures offers multiple perspectives on how the Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been enabled and shaped by common conceptual tools, consistent socio-spatial practices, and unifying beliefs and moral parameters.
Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts
Author : Farouk Yahya
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004301720
Book Description
This book offers an integrated study of the texts and images of illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination from private and public collections in Malaysia, the UK and Indonesia. Containing some of the rare examples of Malay painting, these manuscripts provide direct evidence for the intercultural connections between the Malay region, other parts of Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. In this richly illustrated volume many images and texts are gathered for the first time, making this book essential reading for all those interested in the practice of magic and divination, and the history of Malay, Southeast Asian and Islamic manuscript art.
Australian National Bibliography
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 1994-05
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Book Description
The Gift
Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136896848
Book Description
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004426973
Book Description
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture. Its aim is not only to showcase the range of pioneering work that is currently being done in these areas, but also to provide a model for closer interaction amongst the disciplines constituting this burgeoning field of study. Furthermore, the book provides the rare opportunity to bridge the gap on an institutional level by bringing the academic and curatorial spheres into dialogue. Contributors include: Charles Burnett, Jean-Charles Coulon, Maryam Ekhtiar, Noah Gardiner, Christiane Gruber, Bink Hallum, Francesca Leoni, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Michael Noble, Rachel Parikh, Liana Saif, Maria Subtelny, Farouk Yahya, and Travis Zadeh.
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates
Author : Emma J. Flatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481930
Book Description
Illuminates the centrality of courtliness in the political and cultural life of the Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Indonesia
Author : Jean Gelman Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105186
Book Description
Sociale geschiedenis van Indonesië.
Local Knowledge
Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786723750
Book Description
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz’s exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new introduction by the author.
