ISBN:
9780728600430
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (182 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Collected papers in Oriental and African studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Natural Symbols in South East Asia
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is based on the second of two series of open lectures given in the Centre ofSouth East Asian Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University ofLondon during the session 1975-76. The first of these, Nature and Man in South EastAsia, ran from October to December 1975. The second, Natural Symbols in South EastAsia, ran from January to March 1976.The hope that both series would be coherent and independent, and that each wouldcomplement the other, was in the main realised and the editors are thus able to present thepublished versions as companion volumes.The Department o
Description / Table of Contents:
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PLATES; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; THE PATH OF THE SOUL: THE LEGITIMACY OF NATURE IN BALINESE CONCEPTIONS OF SPACE; IMAGES OF ECSTASY: A VIETNAMESE RESPONSE TO NATURE; PADI, PUNS AND THE ATTRIBUTION OF RESPONSIBILITY; BURMESE ATTITUDES TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS; A FEW REMARKS ABOUT THAI POLITICAL SYSTEMS; ARCHITECTURAL AND POLITICAL SPACE IN THAILAND; NATURAL SYMBOLS IN JAVA; THE PLANETS, THE DAYS OF THE WEEK AND THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS: ORIENTATION SYMBOLISM IN 'BURMA'; SUBJECT INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
