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More Than Words - Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali (Hardcover)
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More Than Words - Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali (Hardcover)
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Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian
island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional
understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the
religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of
Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and
self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in
the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other
inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and
independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions,
presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with
personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become
partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of
exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices
of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent
conceptions of writing—linked to academic philology, reform
Hinduism, and local politics—which take Balinese letters to be a
symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the
transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese
practices of apotropaic writing—on palm-leaves, amulets, and
bodies—challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them.
Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach
to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory
sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized
for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and
beyond.
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