Eyes of the Ancestors
Simply the best book ever published on this subject. —Sir David Attenborough Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection. Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia. Beautiful photography and essays by distinguished international scholars unlock the magic of the island cultures of this region. Leading cultural anthropologist Reimar Schefold introduces these texts, which investigate…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Alpert, Steven G.
- ISBN: 978-0-8048-5173-2
- EAN: 9780804851732
- Produktnummer: 28442451
- Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H30.4 cm x B23.2 cm x D3.0 cm 1'910 g
- Abbildungen: 220 colour photos of textiles, sculptures and metalwork
- Gewicht: 1910
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Reimar Schefold is professor emeritus of the anthropology and sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University and the former chairman of the Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. Steven G. Alpert is an author, consultant and connoisseur of the arts of the island Southeast Asia and Pacific Rim. George Ellis, formerly the President and Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, is an arts consultant and author. Nico de Jonge is Vice-Director of the University Museum of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and also serves as the Curator of Ethnology. Vernon Kedit was schooled in the weaving traditions of the Saribas region (Sarawak, Borneo) by his grandaunts who, master-weavers themselves, were under the tutelage of the last leading grandmaster-weaver of the Saribas, his great-grandmother Sendit Kedit. Achim Sibeth, formerly the curator of the Southeast Asian collection at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt/Main, is an independent scholar and writer. Roxana Waterson is a social anthropologist, recently retired from a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
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