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The art of rice spirit and sustenance in Asia Roy W. Hamilton with contributions by Aurora Ammayao ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History c2003.Description: 552 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color map 31 cmISBN:
  • 0930741986
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.36849095 HAM
Contents:
Introduction /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME Labor, ritual, and the cycle of time /​ Roy W. Hamilton Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand /​ Suriya Smutkupt /​ Pattana Kitiarsa Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal /​ Gisèle Krauskopff Rice culture in Manipur, India /​ Mutua Bahadur The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank /​ Stephen C. Headley Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam /​ Vi Văn An /​ Eric Crystal PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS The granary: a home for the rice spirits /​ Roy W. Hamilton The granary of the Tharu of Nepal /​ Kurt W. Meyer /​ Pamela Deuel PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION Rice festivals: community and celebration The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines /​ Roy W. Hamilton The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali /​ David J. Stuart-Fox Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand /​ Roy W. Hamilton /​ Thitipol Kanteewong The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand /​ Ruth Gerson The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia /​ Eric Crystal Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village /​ Vũ Hông Thuât /​ Roy W. Hamilton Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan /​ Toshiyuki Sano /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE The Goddess of Rice /​ Roy W. Hamilton Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India /​ Nanditha Krishna Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali /​ David J. Stuart-Fox PART 5: SACRED FOOD Sacred food /​ Roy W. Hamilton Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal /​ Sohini Ray The art of rice in Balinese offerings /​ Francine Brinkgreve Sake in Japanese art and culture /​ Mariko Fujita PART 6: STRAW MATTERS Straw matters /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE Rice, self, and state /​ Roy W. Hamilton Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India /​ Nanditha Krishna Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period /​ Toshiyuki Sano Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture /​ Francesca Bray PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE The future of rice /​ Roy W. Hamilton Let's hope the bile is good /​ Aurora Ammayao /​ Gene Hettel Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java /​ Rens Heringa The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play /​ Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities /​ Kwang-Kyu Lee Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons /​ Michael Reinschmidt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [531]-538) and index.

Introduction /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 1: LABOR, RITUAL, AND THE CYCLE OF TIME Labor, ritual, and the cycle of time /​ Roy W. Hamilton Rice festivals in Northeast Thailand /​ Suriya Smutkupt /​ Pattana Kitiarsa Body art and cyclic time: rice dancing among the Tharu of Nepal /​ Gisèle Krauskopff Rice culture in Manipur, India /​ Mutua Bahadur The purification of rice fields in Java with an apotropaic plank /​ Stephen C. Headley Rice harvest rituals in two highland Tai communities in Vietnam /​ Vi Văn An /​ Eric Crystal PART 2: THE GRANARY: A HOME FOR THE RICE SPIRITS The granary: a home for the rice spirits /​ Roy W. Hamilton The granary of the Tharu of Nepal /​ Kurt W. Meyer /​ Pamela Deuel PART 3: RICE FESTIVALS: COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATION Rice festivals: community and celebration The Pahiyas Festival of Lucban, Philippines /​ Roy W. Hamilton The gods walk on rice in Selat, Bali /​ David J. Stuart-Fox Offering the new rice to the Buddha in Mae Chaem, Northern Thailand /​ Roy W. Hamilton /​ Thitipol Kanteewong The Ghost Festival of Dan Sai, Loei Province, Thailand /​ Ruth Gerson The Ma'Bua' Pare Ceremony of the Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi, Indonesia /​ Eric Crystal Trò Trám Festival and the veneration of Ngô Thị Thanh in a Vietnamese village /​ Vũ Hông Thuât /​ Roy W. Hamilton Of mites and men: the Shōrei Festival at Mount Haguro, Japan /​ Toshiyuki Sano /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 4: THE GODDESS OF RICE The Goddess of Rice /​ Roy W. Hamilton Ponniyamman, a Tamil rice goddess from South India /​ Nanditha Krishna Sri and Sedana at Pura Besakih, Bali /​ David J. Stuart-Fox PART 5: SACRED FOOD Sacred food /​ Roy W. Hamilton Lakshmi of the house: rituals, realities, and representations of womanhood in modern Bengal /​ Sohini Ray The art of rice in Balinese offerings /​ Francine Brinkgreve Sake in Japanese art and culture /​ Mariko Fujita PART 6: STRAW MATTERS Straw matters /​ Roy W. Hamilton PART 7: RICE, SELF, AND STATE Rice, self, and state /​ Roy W. Hamilton Rice in the human life cycle: traditions from Tamil Nadu, India /​ Nanditha Krishna Wrapping the body with images of rice: kimono patterns from the Edo Period /​ Toshiyuki Sano Images of rice in imperial Chinese culture /​ Francesca Bray PART 8: THE FUTURE OF RICE The future of rice /​ Roy W. Hamilton Let's hope the bile is good /​ Aurora Ammayao /​ Gene Hettel Mbok Sri dethroned: changing rice rituals in rural East Java /​ Rens Heringa The descent of good fortune and material wealth: a contemporary Javanese shadow puppet play /​ Roy W. Hamilton with Kik Soleh Adi Pramono Social and agricultural change in Korea's rice farming communities /​ Kwang-Kyu Lee Rice in South Korean life: the transformation of agricultural icons /​ Michael Reinschmidt.

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