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

Approx. 350 pp., 86 illus., 5 line drawings, 1 map
ISBN: 978-90-04-31137-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Studies on Performing Arts & L

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ross, Laurie Margot

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Spiritualität & Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Kult, Riten, Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, Drawings, Map

Introduction

Part I: Cultural Markers

Chapter 1:

The Pasisir in the Age of Steam, Sail, and the Railway

Chapter 2:

Independence: Registration Cards, Theme Parks, and Topeng Tours

Chapter 3:

Floating Artists on the Circumambulatory Road

Part II: Mystic Travelers

Chapter 4:

Tuning the Body: Dzikir Flows and Sonic Theism

Chapter 5:

Engaging the Body and the Senses

Part III: Objects that Speak

Chapter 6:

Looking Closely: The Iconic Mask

Chapter 7:

Looking Closer: The Inner Face

Chapter 8:

Mapping Tarekat: Performing the Mosque/Grave Complex

Conclusion

Appendix I: The Topeng Cosmology

Appendix II: Fitting Susuk

Glossary

Works Consulted

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie Margot Ross, Ph.D. (2009), University of California, Berkeley, is a researcher, curator, and educator of Islamic visual culture and performance, based in New York. She was an SSRC Transregional fellow at Cornell University and also taught at UC Berkeley.