Asian Material Culture
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
This richly illustrated volume offers the reader unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, as well as everyday and spiritual aspirations. Though each chapter is representative, rather than exhaustive, in its portrayal of Asian material culture, together they clearly demonstrate that objects are entities that resonate with discourses of human relationships, personal and group identity formations, ethics, values, trade, and, above all, distinctive futures.
Foreword
Barbara Watson Andaya
1 Asian Material Culture in Context
Marianne Hulsbosch, Elizabeth Bedford & Martha Chaiklin
2 Moon Cakes and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival: A Matter of Habitus
Elizabeth Bedford
3 Up in the Hair: Strands of Meaning in Women’s Ornamental Hair Accessories in Early Modern Japan
Martha Chaiklin
4 Nonya Beadwork and Contemporary Peranakan Chinese Culture in Singapore and Malaysia
Hwei-Fe’n Cheah
5 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: The Lion Dance and Chinese National Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Heleanor B. Feltham
6 Works Like a Charm: Cultural Tourism, Colour and its Efficacy in Chinese Miao Traditional Dress
Samantha Hauw
7 Fluttering Like Flowers in a Summer Breeze: Hair Jewellery of Christian Moluccan Women of the Dutch East Indies
Marianne Hulsbosch
8 Tension on the Back-Strap Loom
Audrey Low
Contributors
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies
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