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The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast

The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast

Ross, Laurie Margot

Hardcover

DanceGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004311378
ISBN13: 9789004311374
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 8 2016
Pages: 374
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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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