Okinoshima: The Universal Value of Japan's Sacred Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Okinoshima: The Universal Value of Japan's Sacred Heritage write by Simon Kaner. This book was released on 2016-12-04. Okinoshima: The Universal Value of Japan's Sacred Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Okinoshima was placed on Japan's tentative list for World Heritage designation in 2009, an unprecedented amount of new research into the archaeological and historical materials associated with this exceptional complex of sites was generated. This book provides an overview and sample of this research, and explores the significance and impact that such a targeted program of research can have on understanding a potential World Heritage Site both archaeologically as well as in management terms. The tiny island of Okinoshima, which lies in the Genkai Sea off the coast of northern Kyushu in western Japan, is an extraordinary place that deserves wider recognition in both global archaeology and international heritage management. It is believed to have controlled the important shipping lanes between the Japanese archipelago and the Korean peninsula from the 4th to 10th centuries AD. The island is also notable for being surrounded by secrecy and taboo for it was the sacred home and embodiment of the three jealous Munakata deities (three sisters mentioned in ancient texts, latterly enshrined in the Munakata Grand Shrine and on Okinoshima). Most of the more than 80,000 objects known from archaeological investigations originally had been deposited as offerings to the Munakata deities between the 4th and 10thcenturies AD. All of these objects are now designated as National Treasures by the Japanese government.
Sacred Heritage in Japan
Sacred Heritage in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Heritage in Japan write by Aike P. Rots. This book was released on 2020-04-02. Sacred Heritage in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other. The book examines what happens when places of worship and ritual practices are rebranded as national culture. It also considers the impact of being designated tangible or intangible cultural properties and, more recently, as UNESCO World or Intangible Heritage. Drawing on primary ethnographic and historical research, the contributions to this volume show the variety of ways in which different actors have contributed to, negotiated, and at times resisted the transformation of religious traditions into heritage. They analyse the conflicts that emerge about questions of signification and authority during these processes of transformation. The book provides important new perspectives on the local implications of UNESCO listings in the Japanese context and showcases the diversity of "sacred heritage" in present-day Japan. Combining perspectives from heritage studies, Japanese studies, religious studies, history, and social anthropology, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students who want to learn more about the diversity of local responses to heritage conservation in non-Western societies. It will also be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of Japanese religion, society, or cultural policies.
Ceramic, Art and Civilisation
Ceramic, Art and Civilisation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ceramic, Art and Civilisation write by Paul Greenhalgh. This book was released on 2020-12-24. Ceramic, Art and Civilisation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. As a core craft technology, pottery has underpinned domesticity, business, religion, recreation, architecture, and art for millennia. Indeed, the history of ceramics parallels the development of human society. This fascinating and very human history traces the story of ceramic art and industry from the Ancient Greeks to the Romans and the medieval world; Islamic ceramic cultures and their influence on the Italian Renaissance; Chinese and European porcelain production; modernity and Art Nouveau; the rise of the studio potter, Art Deco, International Style and Mid-Century Modern, and finally, the contemporary explosion of ceramic making and the postmodern potter. Interwoven in this journey through time and place is the story of the pots themselves, the culture of the ceramics, and their character and meaning. Ceramics have had a presence in virtually every country and historical period, and have worked as a commodity servicing every social class. They are omnipresent: a ubiquitous art. Ceramic culture is a clear, unique, definable thing, and has an internal logic that holds it together through millennia. Hence ceramics is the most peculiar and extraordinary of all the arts. At once cheap, expensive, elite, plebeian, high-tech, low-tech, exotic, eccentric, comic, tragic, spiritual, and secular, it has revealed itself to be as fluid as the mud it is made from. Ceramics are the very stuff of how civilized life was, and is, led. This then is the story of human society's most surprising core causes and effects.
Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific
Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific write by . This book was released on 2023-10-09. Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.
Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia
Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia write by Jim Cassidy. This book was released on 2022-06-03. Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
