Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon 9780824863456

Sandra Cate's pioneering ethnography of art-making at Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, Englan

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Table of contents :
Contents
Notes on Transliteration
Preface
1. Finding a Place
2. Long-Distance Merit-Making
3. Thai Art and the Authority of the Past
4. From Buddhist Stories to Modern Art
5. “Going Outside” and the Experience of Modernity
6. Art, Identity, and Performance
7. Tourists and Templegoers, Religion and Art
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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