More Than Words: Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali

Author/Contributor(s):	Fox, Richard
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox...