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The Encoded Cirebon Mask - Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast (Hardcover)
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The Encoded Cirebon Mask - Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, 2
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In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along
Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks
and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an
original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of
many scholars, who argue that canonical prohibitions on fashioning
idols and imagery prove that masks are mere relics of indigenous
beliefs that Muslim travelers could not eradicate. Making use of
archives, oral histories, and the performing objects themselves,
Ross traces the mask's trajectory from a popular entertainment in
Cirebon-once a portal of global exchange-to a stimulus for
establishing a deeper connection to God in late colonial Java, and
eventual links to nationalism in post-independence Indonesia.
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