Fabricating power with Balinese textiles / Urmila Mohan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohan, Urmila, author.

Contributor:

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, host institution.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978--Ethnological collections--Exhibitions.

Mead, Margaret.

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980--Ethnological collections--Exhibitions.

Bateson, Gregory.

Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.

American Museum of Natural History--Ethnological collections--Exhibitions.

American Museum of Natural History.

Textile fabrics--Indonesia--Bali Island--Exhibitions.

Textile fabrics.

Textile design--Indonesia--Bali Island--Exhibitions.

Textile design.

Anthropology--Private collections.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Indonesia--Bali Island.

Local Subjects:

American Museum of Natural History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xvi, 150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York City : Bard Graduate Center, 2018.

Summary:

"Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson were pioneers in using visual anthropological techniques to study the aesthetics of bodily motion in Bali. What is less well known is that they also collected textiles, paintings, puppets, and carvings, most of which are collected at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This book and its accompanying exhibit explore the Mead-Bateson textiles as forms of power. Some textiles in the exhibit are valued for their magical powers derived from techniques of fabrication and contexts of use; other cloths are important for the stories that surround them as records of a period in Balinese history. An added layer of meaning is introduced as these fabrics are curated and exhibited in Western countries. This book reveals how the "power" of Balinese textiles depends upon the efficacies attributed to these objects as they journey from fabrication and ritual use in their native context to curation and display in the West"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cloth and Balinese culture

The Mead-Bateson collection in the AMNH

Cloth in Balinese rites of passage

Bali in the twentieth century

Balinese exhibits in western museums.

Notes:

"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Fabricating power with Balinese textiles held at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 2017"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781941792131

1941792138

OCLC:

979568095

Publisher Number:

99976504365