The Camphor Tree And The Elephant

Author : Faizah Zakaria
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295751177

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The Camphor Tree and the Elephant by Faizah Zakaria Pdf

What is the role of religion in shaping interactions and relations between the human and nonhuman in nature? Why are Muslim and Christian organizations generally not a potent force in Southeast Asian environmental movements? The Camphor Tree and the Elephant brings these questions into the history of ecological change in the region, centering the roles of religion and colonialism in shaping the Anthropocene—“the human epoch.” Historian Faizah Zakaria traces the conversion of the Batak people in upland Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula to Islam and Christianity during the long nineteenth century. She finds that the process helped shape social structures that voided the natural world of enchantment, ushered in a cash economy, and placed the power to remake local landscapes into the hands of a distant elite. Using a wide array of sources such as family histories, prayer manuscripts, and folktales in tandem with colonial and ethnographic archives, Zakaria brings everyday religion and its far-flung implications into our understanding of the environmental history of the modern world.

Author : Volker Grabowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 6162151727

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Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy of the Tai World by Volker Grabowsky Pdf

During the past four decades an impressive corpus of manuscripts and epigraphical material in Thailand, Laos, and adjacent Tai-speaking areas has been surveyed, documented, and digitized. Scholarly interest in this material has not been restricted to philological and historical studies of the texts contained in manuscripts and inscriptions but has extended to its material aspects, which encompass manuscripts written on palm-leaf, various forms of paper, cloth, bamboo, and other organic material, and inscriptions on stone, metal, and wood. In Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy of the Tai World, Volker Grabowsky seeks to explore the production, use, and transmission of manuscripts both as containers of traditional knowledge and as objects used in daily life, rituals, and ceremonies. Particular emphasis is given to the relationship between manuscripts and inscriptions, as both have influenced each other to no small degree. Through a comprehensive look at the Tai-language literature's chronological and synchronic development, readers will learn the social importance of these literary productions.

Author : San San May,Jana Igunma
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295744490

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Buddhism Illuminated by San San May,Jana Igunma Pdf

Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West. The British Library has one of the richest collections of Southeast Asian manuscripts, principally from Thailand and Burma, anywhere in the world. It includes finely painted copies of Buddhist scriptures, literary works, historical narratives, and works on traditional medicine, law, cosmology, and fortune-telling. Buddhism Illuminated includes over one hundred examples of Buddhist art from the Library’s collection, relating each manuscript to Theravada tradition and beliefs, and introducing the historical, artistic, and religious contexts of their production. It is the first book in English to showcase the beauty and variety of Buddhist manuscript art and reproduces many works that have never before been photographed.

Author : Frances Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Folklore
ISBN : PSU:000019753836

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The Elephant's Bathtub by Frances Carpenter Pdf

Fables from 16 Asian countries.

Author : M. S. Swaminathan,S. L. Kochhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781108481953

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Major Flowering Trees of Tropical Gardens by M. S. Swaminathan,S. L. Kochhar Pdf

Discusses new species of flowering trees, useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of life sciences.

Author : Toshihiro Abe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 6162151530

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The Khmer Rouge Trials in Context by Toshihiro Abe Pdf

When a tribunal was formed in 2006 to address the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, many expected the Cambodian model for victim empowerment to open a new path for international judiciary initiatives. However, the local reality of the justice intervention has been more complicated. Rather than joining the success-or-failure debate about the court, this volume pays special attention to how the trials are perceived locally. Inclinations in institutional design, favored or excluded political agendas, mismatched values between experts and locals, and unexpected local meaning-making all flow into the current context in Cambodia. Through critical analysis by authors with on-the-ground experience, this collection--the first to address the tribunal through a sociological framework--provides insight into the tension between the global justice regime and local societal context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600036847

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The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments. A new tr. by E.W. Lane by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005552096

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The Thousand and One Nights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Obbe H. Norbruis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9460220150

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Architecture from the Indonesian Past. Life and Work of Fermont-Cuypers 1927-1957 by Obbe H. Norbruis Pdf

Things are changing and we are changing with it,? was their motto. Since 1927 uprising broke out against the Dutch in the colony, the crisis followed. They continued to design stoically at Fermont-Cuypers; schools, churches, villas and offices. All buildings on which the Dutch flag fluttered. Nationalism played worldwide. At the end of the 1930s, the crisis was over for them too, they designed, hospitals, head offices, hotels, and even a passenger terminal in Tanjung Priok. ?The busy season will soon start again, many tourists are expected,? wrote the newspapers shortly before the German invasion of the Netherlands. Everything changed because of the war in the archipelago. After Indonesian independence, the firm had a restart until 1958. Their buildings still exist in Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and many other cities. Indonesia is proud of it. This book tells the story of a productive architecture firm, unique buildings and the people behind them.00This is the English revised edition of the book 'Architectuur met vlag en wimpel' (ISBN 9789460224706, LM Publishers, 2018).

Author : Monica Lindberg Falk
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788776940195

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Making Fields of Merit by Monica Lindberg Falk Pdf

"This anthropological study addresses religion and gender relations through the lens of the lives, actions and role in Thai society of an order of Buddhist nuns (mae chii). It presents a unique ethnography of these Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society. The study also deals with the nuns' agency in creating religious space and authority for women. In addition, it raises questions about how the position of Thai Buddhist nuns outside the Buddhist sanhga affects their religious legitimacy and describes recent moves to restore a Theravada order of female monks." -- BACK COVER.

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752335620

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The Golden Bough by James George Frazer Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Golden Bough by James George Frazer

Author : Patricia V. Symonds
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295805658

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Calling in the Soul by Patricia V. Symonds Pdf

“Calling in the Soul” (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on the third day after birth. Based on extensive original research conducted in the late 1980s in a village in northern Thailand, this ethnographic study examines Hmong cosmological beliefs about the cycle of life as expressed in practices surrounding birth, marriage, and death and considers the gender relationships evident in these practices. The Hmong (or Miao, as they are called in China, and Meo, in Thailand) have lived on the fringes of powerful Southeast Asian states for centuries. Their social framework is distinctly patrilineal, granting little direct power to women. Yet within the limits of that structure, Hmong women wield considerable influence in the spiritually critical realms of birth and death. Calling in the Soul will be of interest to sociocultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists, Southeast Asianists, and gender specialists. Replaces ISBN 9780295800424

Author : Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295989228

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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDaniel Pdf

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. He depicts Buddhism as a series of overlapping processes, bringing fresh attention to the continuities of Theravada monastic communities that have endured despite regional and linguistic variations. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education. As the first comprehensive study of monastic education in Thailand and Laos, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students interested in religious studies, anthropology, social and intellectual history, and pedagogy.

Author : Edward William Lane,Edward Stanley Poole
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385329201

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The Thousand and One Nights. Commonly Called, in England, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Edward William Lane,Edward Stanley Poole Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Edward William Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Arabs
ISBN : OXFORD:300002892

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The Thousand and One Nights by Edward William Lane Pdf