Studies on Performing Arts & Literature The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Book 2, (Hardcover)
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In <i>The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast</i>, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that canonical prohibitions on fashioning idols and imagery prove that masks are mere relics of indigenous beliefs that Muslim travelers could not eradicate. Making use of archives, oral histories, and the performing objects themselves, Ross traces the mask's trajectory from a popular entertainment in Cirebon--once a portal of global exchange--to a stimulus for establishing a deeper connection to God in late colonial Java, and eventual links to nationalism in post-independence Indonesia.
- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Book 2, (Hardcover)
- Author: Laurie Margot Ross
- ISBN: 9789004311374
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2016-09-08
- Page Count: 374
| Book format | Hardcover |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | History |
| Publication date | September, 2016 |
| Pages | 374 |
| Subgenre | Asia |
| Series title | Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate Wo |
| Number in series | 2 |
| Edition | approx. 350 pp., 86 illus., 5 Edition |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Binding type | Case Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.30 x 1.10 x 9.30 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.5 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | History |
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