Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Introduction
View through CrossRef
The introduction gives an overview of the goddess Baijie’s four identities and the book’s main themes of religion, ethnicity, and gender. It starts by examining the relationship between deities and society, with a focus on gendered deities, local deities, and deities of the Chinese frontier. It also introduces the Dali region, which it locates both in Zomia, the mountainous, stateless region that covers much of Southeast Asia and southwest China, and in relation to the Chinese state. Baijie’s different forms illustrate how people in Dali managed the tensions between their local identities and the increasing proximity of the Chinese state. Finally, the introduction addresses historiographical and methodological issues that arise in studying Dali and concludes with an outline of each chapter.
Title: Introduction
Description:
The introduction gives an overview of the goddess Baijie’s four identities and the book’s main themes of religion, ethnicity, and gender.
It starts by examining the relationship between deities and society, with a focus on gendered deities, local deities, and deities of the Chinese frontier.
It also introduces the Dali region, which it locates both in Zomia, the mountainous, stateless region that covers much of Southeast Asia and southwest China, and in relation to the Chinese state.
Baijie’s different forms illustrate how people in Dali managed the tensions between their local identities and the increasing proximity of the Chinese state.
Finally, the introduction addresses historiographical and methodological issues that arise in studying Dali and concludes with an outline of each chapter.
Related Results
Optimization of load introduction points in sandwich structures with additively manufactured cores
Optimization of load introduction points in sandwich structures with additively manufactured cores
This paper presents how numerical optimization methods, like topology optimization, and new design possibilities through additive manufacturing (AM) can be used for structural impr...
Introduction
Introduction
The introduction offers a first presentation of the philosophical tradition of romantic empiricism, enumerates its most important insights, and suggestively indicating its continue...
Introduction
Introduction
Abstract
The guest editors' introduction to ARTMargins Issue 1:2–3 proposes that the dynamic marginal art scenes that developed under Latin American military dictato...
Four Criteria to Evaluate Providers' Service-Delivery Response to New Contraceptive Introduction
Four Criteria to Evaluate Providers' Service-Delivery Response to New Contraceptive Introduction
This article presents an evaluation framework developed to assess the first-level effects of introducing the Standard Days Method (SDM) in Peru Ministry of Health clinics. Four que...
Introduction: Remixing the Classics
Introduction: Remixing the Classics
Abstract
Drawing on the findings of the Remixing the Classics research network, this introduction highlights the importance of both digital culture and classic liter...
Introduction: Plant Performance
Introduction: Plant Performance
Plants perform their own interests and purposes. Plants perform in ways that afford and invite specific human experiences. Plants also perform complex biopolitical roles. With thes...
Introduction
Introduction
The introduction begins by indicating an almost paradoxical dynamic of philosophy and politics that gives shape to Butler’s thought. The double commitment – to urgency of action an...
Introduction: travelling images
Introduction: travelling images
The introduction expands on the rationale, aim and layout of the book. It also the develops the core concepts of the book, such as image, art world, borderlands, and image ecology....
Recent Results
Beauty on a Snowy Quay
Beauty on a Snowy Quay
Hanging scroll; ink and color and gold on silk, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan...
The Faces of Florence in Aleksandr Blok’s Italian Poems
The Faces of Florence in Aleksandr Blok’s Italian Poems
This article examines the first two poems in Aleksandr Blok’s cycle Florence, which describe two opposite images of the city. The poet visited Italy in 1909, and his impressions ar...
Drachm of Antiochos I Soter of Syria
Drachm of Antiochos I Soter of Syria
Obv.: Head of Herakles in lion skin r., border of dots.
Rev.: Zeus seated l. on throne, holding eagle and scepter; to l., monogram, above forepart of lion l.; beaneath throne, mon...
Your session has timed out for security reasons.