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Author:
Fox, Richard, 1972- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010067735
Title:
More than words : transforming script, agency, and collective life in Bali / Richard Fox.
Publisher:
Cornell University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xviii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject:
Balinese language--Writing.
Balinese language--Alphabet.
Manuscripts, Balinese.
Bali Island (Indonesia)--Civilization.
Balinese language--Alphabet.
Balinese language--Writing.
Civilization.
Manuscripts, Balinese.
Indonesia--Bali Island.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Manuscripts, madness -- Writing and the idea of ecology -- The meaning of life, or how to do things with letters -- Practice and the problem of complexity -- Maintaining a houseyard as a practice -- Tradition as argument -- Translational indeterminacy -- Wagging the dog.
Summary:
"Challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia, through ethnographic and archival research conducted on Bali"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1501725351
9781501725357
1501725343
9781501725340
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1057737217
LCCN:
2017053343
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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