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Author : Kirk Michael Endicott
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Analysis of Malay Magic written by Kirk Michael Endicott and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K.M. Endicott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Analysis of Malay Magic written by K.M. Endicott and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Farouk Yahya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004301720
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts written by Farouk Yahya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an integrated study of the texts and images of illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination from private and public collections in Malaysia, the UK and Indonesia. Containing some of the rare examples of Malay painting, these manuscripts provide direct evidence for the intercultural connections between the Malay region, other parts of Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. In this richly illustrated volume many images and texts are gathered for the first time, making this book essential reading for all those interested in the practice of magic and divination, and the history of Malay, Southeast Asian and Islamic manuscript art.
Author : Richard Winstedt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shaman, Saiva and Sufi written by Richard Winstedt and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824828639
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Nature and Nation written by Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-10-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.
Author : C. W. Watson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815158
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia written by C. W. Watson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft holds a perennial fascination for scholars and the public at large. In Southeast Asia malign magic and sorcery are part of the routine experience of villagers and urban dwellers alike, and stories appearing in the press from time to time bear witness to a persisting public concern. The essays presented in this volume describe what people believe and what actions result from those beliefs. Not surprisingly, given the range and variety of cultures, considerable differences exist in the region. Among some cultures, in Thailand and Indonesia for example, sorcerers are said to possess spirits that empower them to cause illness and misfortune. Elsewhere, in Malaysia and Sumatra, the power of the dukun derives from the accumulation of arcane knowledge and mystical practice. Contributors describe the witches and sorcerers they have met and suggest both how their societies look upon them and how we in turn should regard them. Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia will appeal to scholars and students of social anthropology and comparative religion. Its substantial contribution to theoretical and comparative issues in a Southeast Asian context provides a fresh perspective on a stimulating topic.
Author : Robert M. Torrance
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920163
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Quest written by Robert M. Torrance and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world. Yet Torrance is not trying to reduce the quest to an "archetype" or "monomyth." Instead, he presents the full diversity of the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and especially the Americas. In theorizing about the quest, Torrance draws on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Pierce and Popper, Freud, Darwin, and Chomsky. This is a book that will expand our knowledge—and awareness—of a fundamental human activity in all its fascinating complexity.
Author : Victor King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000143120
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia written by Victor King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.
Author : Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339915
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Elite Malay Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Malay women’s polygamy narratives are multiple and varied, and their sentiments regarding the practice are conflicted, as they are often torn between personal and religious convictions. This volume explores the ways in which this increasingly prominent practice impacts Malay gender relations. As Muslims, elite Malay women may be forced to accept polygamy, but they mostly condemn it as women and wives, as it forces them to manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of polygamy from a husband able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent; a husband that is married but available.
Author : Farish Noor
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290677X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Spirit of Wood written by Farish Noor and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers. Wood has always played a significant role in the Malay world, including the Malay Peninsula, as a means of shelter, livelihood, comfort and convenience. Among the living arts of Malaysia, woodcarving is one of the oldest, and for centuries woodcarvers enjoyed a prestige that few others did. A master woodcarver was not simply an artist. He had a mystical affinity with his material, and through his art he could unlock, channel and enhance the semangat, or life force, inherent in the wood. His works ere sought after not only for their beauty, but also for the symbolic power and meaning they embodied, in particular the keris, considered the pinnacle of woodcarver's art. Each of the pieces in this catalog of Malaysian art illustrates a specific motif, use of a pattern or form, or interpretation of a legend. The woodcarvings range from extremely important and rare pieces, such as royal ceremonial objects, to wood panels, household objects and elements of traditional Malay architecture.
Author : Nils Bubandt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471966
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Empty Seashell written by Nils Bubandt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable.Witches (known as gua in the Buli language or as suanggi in regional Malay) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience.Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia—an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt—Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people's experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
Author : Kirsten W. Endres
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453599
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Engaging the Spirit World written by Kirsten W. Endres and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many parts of the contemporary world, spirit beliefs and practices have taken on a pivotal role in addressing the discontinuities and uncertainties of modern life. The myriad ways in which devotees engage the spirit world show the tremendous creative potential of these practices and their innate adaptability to changing times and circumstances. Through in-depth anthropological case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam, the contributors to this book investigate the role and impact of different social, political, and economic dynamics in the reconfiguration of local spirit worlds in modern Southeast Asia. Their findings contribute to the re-enchantment debate by revealing that the “spirited modernities” that have emerged in the process not only embody a distinct feature of the contemporary moment, but also invite a critical rethinking of the concept of modernity itself.
Author : Tuck-Po Lye
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106501
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Changing Pathways written by Tuck-Po Lye and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Pathways is a full-length ethnography that argues that the Batek are not helpless victims of development but, rather, shrewd players who understand what are the political, environmental, and cultural implications of environmental degradation.
Author : Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786433353
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Asian Gothic written by Andrew Hock Soon Ng and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works. Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and the Gothic writings of specific Asian nations, this volume covers a wide variety of Asian texts. The essays of Part One demonstrate the flexibility of Postcolonial Gothic literature in adopting divergent or even contradictory ideologies. Part Two evokes the Gothic as the theoretical framework from which to interrogate the writings of Asian-American authors Maxine Hong Kingston, Sky Lee, lě thi diem thuy and David Henry Hwang. Part Three studies the Gothic tradition in the national literatures of China, Japan, Korea, and Turkey.
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Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Malaysia Official Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Turton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136797513
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Civility and Savagery written by Andrew Turton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai
Author : Mohd. Taib Osman
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9971988127
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Malaysian World-view written by Mohd. Taib Osman and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on the worldviews of the people in Malaysia focuses on the three main ethnic groups - the Malays, Chinese and Indians - as well as the indigenous peoples of Sabah. Topics include the Islamic worldview of Man, society and nature, the traditional Malay socio-political outlook, the language and worldview of the Malay peasants, as well as Malaysian folk-tales and drama. The worldview of social belonging among the Chinese and Indians, and the traditional worldviews of the indigenous peoples of Sabah are also presented.
