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Voice of Nature
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Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia
In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago.
Unveiling Indonesia
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Sculptures
Pending the opening of the Musee du Quai Branly in 2004, this Pavillon des Sessions display represents the first step towards realising the ambition stated by the President of the Republic: namely to endow France with a modern institution dedicated to the arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.
De l'Asie antique à l'Amérique précolombienne
Essai Cet ouvrage original sur l'origine des cultures et civilisations précolombiennes fait constamment référence aux cultures et civilisations asiatiques de mêmes époques, situées de part et d'autre de l'Océan Pacifique. Il développe l'existence probables de relations intercontinentales très anciennes au niveau de la bande équatoriale du "Grand Océan"qui est périodiquement affectée par le phénomène de El Niño.
