More Than Words

Richard Fox

Description

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.

Sujets

• Lettres et linguistique
• Writing system
• History of Asia
• Bali

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501725364
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

Extrait

More Than Words

More Than Words

Transformîng Scrîpt, Agency, and Coectîve Lîfe în Baî

RIchard Fox

CorneLL UnIversIty Press ïthaca and ondon

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Nàéŝ: FôX, Rîçà, 1972–àûô. Tîé: Môé à ôŝ : àŝôî ŝçî, àéç, à çôéçîé îé î Bà / Rcàr Fo. Déŝcro: àcà : Coré Uvérŝ Préŝŝ, 2018. | cuéŝ bboràcà référécéŝ à é. éïérŝ: LCCN 2017053343 (r) | LCCN 2017056751 (éboo) | SBN 9781501725371 (éub/ob) | SBN 9781501725364 (f) | SBN 9781501725340 | SBN 9781501725340 (co ; à. àér) | SBN 9781501725357 (b. ; à. àér) Subjécŝ: LCSH: Bàéŝé àuàé—Wr. | Bàéŝé àuàé— Aàbé. | Màuŝcrŝ, Bàéŝé. | Bà ŝà (oéŝà)— Cvzào. Càŝŝïcào: LCC PL5162 (éboo) | LCC PL5162 F69 2018 (r) | DDC 499/.223811—c23 LC récor àvààbé à ŝ://cc.oc.ov/2017053343

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Contents

Péàçé à Açôééŝ

A Nôé ô Oôà à Réàé Côéîôŝ

1. Màûŝçîŝ, Màéŝŝ

2. Wîî à é ïéà ô Eçôô

3. Té Méàî ô îé, ô Hô ô Dô Tîŝ î ééŝ

4. Pàçîçé à é Pôé ô CôéXî

5. Màîàîî à Hôûŝéà àŝ à Pàçîçé

6. Tàîîô àŝ Aûé

7. Tàŝàîôà ïééîàç

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