The Life of a Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village 9780824864811

Should a temple be seen as a work of art, its carvers as artists, its worshipers as art critics and patrons? What is a t

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English Pages 312 Year 2004

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Terms, Names, and Spelling
Preface
Part I. Work
1. A Temple and an Anthropologist
2. Those Who Carry the Temple on Their Heads
3. The Purposes of Pura Désa Batuan
Part II. Works
4. The Age of the Balinese Rajas (before 1908)
5. The Age of the Dutch Rajas (1908–1942)
6. Forms, Meanings, and Pleasures
7. The Age of the Last of the Dutch Rajas (1948–1950)
8. The Age of Freedom (1950–1967)
9. The Age of the Tourists (1966–1995)
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
About the Author

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