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Stone masters : power encounters in mainland Southeast Asia / edited by Holly High.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rocks.
- Stone.
- Southeast Asia--Religious life and customs.
- Southeast Asia.
- Stone--Southeast Asia--Religious aspects.
- Rocks--Southeast Asia--Religious aspects.
- Ethnology--Southeast Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Rocks--Religious aspects.
- Stone--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Power encounters in mainland Southeast Asia
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Section I Stone Theory
- 1. An Introduction to Stone Masters / Holly High
- 2. Theorising `Stone Masters': Revisiting Paul Mus / John Clifford Holt
- Section II Living with Mounds, Stones and Soil
- 3. Living with New Gods: Power Encounters in Sekong Province, Lao PDR / Holly High
- 4. The Dance of Life and Death: Social Relationships with Elemental Power / Courtney Work
- 5. The Party-State Has Come: Ritual Rupture and Cosmological Continuity on a Ridgetop in Laos / Paul-David Lutz
- 6. Masters of the Underground: Termite Mound Worship and the Mutuality of Chthonic and Human Beings in Thailand's Lower Northeast / Benjamin Baumann
- Section III Pillars and State
- 7. Lady Luck of the City: Myth and Meaning at Vientiane's City Pillar / Holly High
- 8. Guardians of the Kingdom / Sally Bamford
- 9. From Ritual Traditions to Spirit Mediumship: The Evolution of Pillar Worship in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand / Kazuo Fukuura
- 10. Territory Cults and Power in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar / Klemens Karlsson
- 11. The Mountain, the Masters and the Nation: Enduring Power Encounters at a Temple in Contemporary Vietnam / Hang T.D. Ngd
- 12. Afterword / Penny Van Esterik.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789813251700
- 9813251700
- OCLC:
- 1287232314
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