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What's the Use of Art?
Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Wrapping and Unwrapping Art
- Functions
- One. From the Living Rock Understanding Figural Representation in Early South Asia
- Two. Disposable but Indispensable the Earthenware Vessel as Vehicle of Meaning In Japan
- Three. From the Wedding Chamber to the Museum Relocating the Ritual Arts of Madhubani
- Four. In the Realm of the Indigo Queen Dyeing, Exchange Magic, and the Elusive Tourist Dollar on Sumba
- Movements
- Five. Plunder, Markets, and Museums the Biographies of Chinese Imperial Objects in Europe and North America
- Six. Situating Moving Objects: A Sino-Japanese Catalogue of Imported Items, 800 Ce to the Present
- Memories
- Seven. Angkor Revisited the State of Statuary
- Eight. An Ancestral Keris, Balinese Kingship, and A Modern Presidency
- Nine. Raw Ingredients and Deposit Boxes in Balinese Sanctuaries: A Congruence of Obsessions
- Conclusion. Ways Of Experiencing: Art Art History, Television, And Javanese Wayang
- Contributors
- Index