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Islands and ancestors : indigenous styles of Southeast Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Musée Barbier-Mueller
Other Authors: Barbier-Mueller, Jean Paul, 1930-, Newton, Douglas, 1920-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: München : Prestel ; [1988]
Subjects:
Material culture > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions.
Folk art > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions.
Art, Primitive > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions.
Southeast Asia > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Musée Barbier-Mueller > Exhibitions.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Philippe de Montebello
  • Reflections in bronze : Lapita and Dong-Son art in the Western Pacific / Douglas Newton
  • Autochthonous peoples of Central Vietnam / Jacques Dournes
  • The seat of the ancestors in the homeland of the Nias people / Jerome Feldman
  • A stone rider of the Batak of Sumatra / Jean Paul Barbier
  • The Dayak of Borneo : on the ancestors, the dead and the living / Nicole Revei-Macdonald
  • The Mamasa and Sa'dan Toraja of Sulawesi / Clémentine H.M. Nooy-Palm
  • Flores : cosmology, art and ritual / Maribeth Erb
  • Arts and cultures of Sumba / Janet Hoskins
  • Art and religion on Timor / David Hicks
  • Tanimbar boats / Susan McKinnon
  • Ifugao art / George R. Ellis
  • Notes on a wooden house-post of the Budai Paiwan / Chen Chi-lu.