What's the use of art? Asian visual and material culture in context / [electronic resource] : Jan Mr�azek and Morgan Pitelka, editors. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008. - 313 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka -- Functions -- From the living rock: understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli -- Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort -- From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. Davis -- In the realm of the indigo queen: dyeing, exchange magic, and the elusive tourist dollar on Sumba / Janet Hoskins -- Movements -- Plunder, markets, and museums: the biographies of Chinese imperial objects in Europe and North America / James L. Hevia -- Situating moving objects: a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE to the present / Cynthea J. Bogel -- Memories -- Angkor revisited: the state of statuary / Ashley Thompson -- An ancestral keris, Balinese kingship, and a modern presidency / Lene Pedersen -- Raw ingredients and deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries: a congruence of obsessions / Kaja M. McGowan -- Conclusion -- Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mr�azek -- Contributors.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Art objects, Asian.
Material culture--Asia.
Antiques--Asia.


Electronic books.

NK1037 / .W43 2008eb

709.5

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