Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art by Schefold, Reimar
Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art by Schefold, Reimar

Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

Simply the best book ever published on this subject. --Sir David Attenborough Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts...
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Author: Reimar Schefold
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Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art by Schefold, Reimar

Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

$45.28
Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art by Schefold, Reimar

Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

$45.28
Author: Reimar Schefold
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Simply the best book ever published on this subject. --Sir David Attenborough

Lavish photography and groundbreaking texts unlock the magic of the island cultures of Indonesia, Malaysia, and East Timor through examples of textiles, sculpture, and metalwork from this prestigious collection.

Eyes of the Ancestors takes an in-depth look at the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned collection of artworks from Island Southeast Asia. Beautiful photography and essays by distinguished international scholars unlock the magic of the island cultures of this region.

Leading cultural anthropologist Reimar Schefold introduces these texts, which investigate various indigenous art forms from a fresh, art history perspective. They describe the contexts, purposes, and aesthetic influences of a range of objects, from intricately woven sacred and ceremonial textiles to carved ancestral figures.

Also featured are gold and metalwork designs as well as weaponry and jewelry--most dating back more than a hundred years. A 19th-century mouth mask in the collection, from the Leti Islands, is one of only our known to be in existence. Carved in the shape of a bird's head, this wooden mask was used in ritual dances. Other spectacular examples from the collection also reflect the beliefs and practices of these island cultures.

Author: Reimar Schefold
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 03/26/2019
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 4.20lbs
Size: 12.00h x 9.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780804851732

About the Author
Reimar Schefold is professor emeritus of the anthropology and sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University and the former chairman of the Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

Steven G. Alpert is an author, consultant and connoisseur of the arts of the island Southeast Asia and Pacific Rim.

George Ellis, formerly the President and Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, is an arts consultant and author.

Nico de Jonge is Vice-Director of the University Museum of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and also serves as the Curator of Ethnology.

Vernon Kedit was schooled in the weaving traditions of the Saribas region (Sarawak, Borneo) by his grandaunts who, master-weavers themselves, were under the tutelage of the last leading grandmaster-weaver of the Saribas, his great-grandmother Sendit Kedit.

Achim Sibeth, formerly the curator of the Southeast Asian collection at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt/Main, is an independent scholar and writer.

Roxana Waterson is a social anthropologist, recently retired from a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
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