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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
ISBN
9780930741983

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural Hi-Story
ISBN-10
0930741986
ISBN-13
9780930741983
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30281056

Product Key Features

Book Title
Art of Rice : Spirit and Sustenance in Asia
Number of Pages
552 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author
Roy W. Hamilton
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight
90.4 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-058024
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
398/.36849/095
Table Of Content
IntroductionPart 1 Labor, Ritual and the Cycle of TimeLabor, Ritual and the Cycle of Time; Rice Festivals in Northeast Thailand; Body Art and Cyclic Time: Rice Dancing among the Tharu of Nepal; Rice Culture in Manipur, India; The Purification of Rice Fields in Java with an Apotropiac Plank; Rice Harvest Festivals in VietnamPart 2 The Granary: A Home for the Rice SpiritsThe Granary: A Home for the Rice Spirits; The Granary of the Tharu of NepalPart 3 Rice Festivals: Community and CelebrationsRice Festivals: Community and Celebrations; The Pahiyas of Lucban, Philippines; The Gods Walk on Rice in Selat, Bali; Offering the New Rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand; The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand; The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia; Tho Tram Festival and the Veneration of Ngo Thi Thanh in a Vietnamese Village; Of Mites and Men: The Shorei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan NepalPart 4 The Goddess of RiceThe Goddess of Rice; Ponniyamman, a Tamil Rice Goddess from South India; Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, BaliPart 5 Sacred FoodSacred Fod; Lakshmi of the House: Rituals, Realities and Representations of Womanhood in Modern Bengal; The Art of Rice in Balinese Offerings; Sake in Japanese Art and CulturePart 5 Straw MattersStraw MattersPart 6 Rice, Self and the StateRice, Self and the State; Rice in the Human Life Cycle: Traditions from Tamil Nadu, India; Wrapping the Body with Images of Rice: Kimono Patterns from Edo Period; Images of Rice in Imperial Chinese CulturePart 8 The Future of RiceThe Future of Rice; Let's Hope the Bile is Good; Mbok Sri Dethroned: Changing Rice Rituals in Rural East Java; The Crescent of Good Fortune and Material Wealth: A Contemporary Javanese Shadow Puppet Play; Social and Agricultural Change in Korea's Rice Farming Communities; Rice in South Korean Life: The Transformation of Agricultural Icons
Synopsis
Explores beliefs and practices relating to rice as they are made manifest in the unique arts and material cultures of Asian peoples, Explores beliefs and practices relating to rice as they are made manifest in the unique arts and material cultures of Asian peoples Contains magnificent photographs This volume explores beliefs and practices relating to rice as they are made manifest in the unique arts and material cultures of the various peoples who live throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. Incorporating essays by 27 authorities representing a wide variety of cultures and perspectives, the lavishly illustrated book describes rice-related rituals and beliefs in Thailand, Nepal, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, China, and Korea. Throughout, the juxtaposition of magnificent photographs of works of art - paintings, prints, ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, and sculpture - with objects of a more humble nature - agricultural implements, rice-straw ornaments, cooking utensils, baskets, puppets, votive plaques, and more - serves to indicate the striking pervasiveness of rice in all aspects and all walks of life. Wedding ceremonies, parades, festivals, celebrations of birth, rites held to honor the rice goddess, and those performed to ensure success at every step in the rice-growing cycle are vividl
LC Classification Number
GR265.H352003

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