Making spirits, making art, Nat carving and contemporary painting in pre-transition Myanmar (Burma)
Embodiment, materiality, and technology intersect in the production of sacred images where tools, media, and intangible studio protocols inform the production of efficacious things. In Myanmar nat spirits appear in the bodies of costumed spirit mediums and in the intimately tended statues that adorn...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2018]
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Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 285-313 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Burma
/ Buddhism
/ Sacred object
/ Supernatural being
/ Religious art
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | B
object agency
B Myanmar (Burma) B anthropology of art B Materiality B Aesthetics B spirit mediumship B nat worship B sensational forms |
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