The Women's Warpath
Author | : Traude Gavin |
Publisher | : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Traude Gavin |
Publisher | : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barbara Watson Andaya |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824829557 |
The Princess of the Flaming Womb, the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet, despite these ambiguities, the relatively egalitarian nature of male-female relations in Southeast Asia is central to arguments claiming a coherent identity for the region. This challenging work by senior scholar Barbara Watson Andaya considers such contradictions while offering a thought-provoking view of Southeast Asian history that focuses on women's roles and perceptions. Andaya explores the broad themes of the early modern era (1500-1800) - the introduction of new religions, major economic shifts, changing patterns of state control, the impact of elite lifestyles and behaviors - drawing on an extraordinary range of sources and citing numerous examples from Thai, Vietnamese, Burmese, Philippine, and Malay societies.
Author | : Traude Gavin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2022-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004489053 |
Author | : Victor T. King |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811006725 |
This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary fields of the social sciences, with the weight of attention devoted to anthropological research and related fields such as development studies, gender studies, environmental studies, social policy studies and cultural studies. Some of the chapters in this book are extended versions of presentations at the Borneo Research Council’s international conference hosted by Universiti Brunei Darussalam in June 2012 and a Borneo Studies workshop organised in Brunei in 2012. The volume examines some of the major debates and controversies in Borneo Studies, including those which have served to connect post-war research on Borneo to wider scholarship. It also assesses some of the more recent contributions and interests of locally based researchers in universities and other institutions in Borneo itself. The major strength of the book is the inclusion of a substantial amount of research undertaken by scholars working and teaching within the Southeast Asian region. In particular there is an examination of research materials published in the vernacular, notably the outpouring of work published in Indonesian by the Institut Dayakologi in Pontianak. In doing so, the book also addresses the urgent matters which have not received the attention they deserve, specifically subjects, themes and issues that have already been covered but require further contemplation, elaboration and research, and the scope for disciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration in Borneo Studies. The book is a valuable resource and reference work for students and researchers interested in social science scholarship on Borneo, and for those with wider interests in Indonesia and Malaysia, and in the Southeast Asian region.
Author | : Marianne Hulsbosch |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9089640908 |
This richly illustrated volume offers the reader unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, as well as everyday and spiritual aspirations. Though each chapter is representative, rather than exhaustive, in its portrayal of Asian material culture, together they clearly demonstrate that objects are entities that resonate with discourses of human relationships, personal and group identity formations, ethics, values, trade, and, above all, distinctive futures.
Author | : Traude Gavin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781736777473 |
The book is based on fieldwork carried out by the author between 2005 and 2009. Gavin writes: "This study provides a record for ethnic groups in Sarawak and West Kalimantan of textiles that many of the groups themselves no longer possess." The book will be a unique resource for identifying the styles and ethnic associations of textiles in public and private collections, as well as a document of vanishing weaving traditions.
Author | : Christopher Breward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 849 |
Release | : 2023-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108851487 |
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.
Author | : Karel R. Van Kooij |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136176411 |
This volume is the first tangible result of an international project initiated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) with the aim of compiling a bibliographic database documenting publications on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. The bibliographic information, over 1,300 records extracted from the database, forms the principal part of this publication. It is preceded by a list of periodicals consulted and followed by three types of indexes which help users to find their way in the ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA Index). The detailed bibliographic descriptions, controlled keywords and many elucidating annotations make this reference work into an indispensable guide to recent scholarly work on the prehistory and arts of South/Southeast Asia.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Aboriginal Australians |
ISBN | : 1588392384 |
Includes detailed chapters devoted to each of the five major cultural regions of the Pacific: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the islands of Southeast Asia.
Author | : M. Heppell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : |
"The author describes the ikat, sungkit, pilih, and other forms of Iban weaving, the sculptures, the tattooing, metal forging, and other art of the Iban in the context of their oral sagas, stories, poetry, and love songs. He shows how art was used as a pre-literate scholastic aptitude test to ensure intelligent Iban married other intelligent Iban to increase the likelihood that their children were intelligent and were more likely to prosper. Women also chose men on the basis of their prowess at war to ensure the household, physically, was secure. That meant heads and headhunting. The book shows how weaving and headhunting came to be ritualized, the one encouraging the other, so that sexual selection was bound into the Iban's holy trinity of taking heads, growing rice, and birth or regeneration." --Publisher.