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Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia - Studies in Spatial Anthropology (Hardcover)
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Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia - Studies in Spatial Anthropology (Hardcover)
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 294
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In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern
Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian
ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred
groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting
offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste
offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract
them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented.
Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material
elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit
ladders or spirit pathways. Various 'exotic' features of Indonesian
vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from
times when architecture was still responding to indigenous
religions practised in the archipelago.
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