What's the use of art? Asian visual and material culture in context /
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka
- Functions
- From the living rock: understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli
- Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort
- From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. Davis
- In the realm of the indigo queen: dyeing, exchange magic, and the elusive tourist dollar on Sumba / Janet Hoskins
- Movements
- Plunder, markets, and museums: the biographies of Chinese imperial objects in Europe and North America / James L. Hevia
- Situating moving objects: a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE to the present / Cynthea J. Bogel
- Memories
- Angkor revisited: the state of statuary / Ashley Thompson
- An ancestral keris, Balinese kingship, and a modern presidency / Lene Pedersen
- Raw ingredients and deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries: a congruence of obsessions / Kaja M. McGowan
- Conclusion
- Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrázek
- Contributors.