1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005572590403321

Autore

Milojcic, Vladimir

Titolo

Chronologie der jnngeren Steinzeit Mittel - und Sndosteuropas / Vladimir Milojcic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : Gebr. Mann, 1949

Descrizione fisica

XII, 136 p., 39 tav. ; 27 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

ARCH. PR 018 4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813716103321

Autore

Domenig Gaudenz

Titolo

Religion and architecture in premodern indonesia : studies in spatial anthropology / / by Gaudenz Domenig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27407-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (594 p.)

Collana

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde, , 1572-1892 ; ; Volume 294

Disciplina

720.740531

Soggetti

Architecture

Religions

Indonesia Religious life and customs

Indonesia Religion

Indonesia Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Gaudenz Domenig -- Introduction / Gaudenz Domenig -- Introductory notes: The landtaking ritual as a key to understanding indigenous religions / Gaudenz Domenig -- Land-clearing rituals and sacred groves / Gaudenz Domenig -- Sacred groves and tabooed mountains / Gaudenz Domenig -- The soul land and the place of deified ancestors / Gaudenz Domenig -- Introductory notes: Deities and spirits called to offerings / Gaudenz Domenig -- Temporary altars and the attraction of fresh leaves / Gaudenz Domenig -- Roofed altars and offering houses / Gaudenz Domenig -- Artificial ladders and inverted posts / Gaudenz Domenig -- Introductory notes: The sources and their interpretation / Gaudenz Domenig -- Spirit pathways in the Tanimbar house / Gaudenz Domenig -- Rafters as paths / Gaudenz Domenig -- Plumes and brushes as attractors / Gaudenz Domenig -- Gable finials / Gaudenz Domenig -- Projecting gables / Gaudenz Domenig -- The relative instability of roofs / Gaudenz Domenig -- Epilogue / Gaudenz Domenig -- Glossary of technical terms / Gaudenz Domenig -- List of works cited / Gaudenz Domenig -- Sources of illustrations and credits / Gaudenz Domenig -- Index / Gaudenz Domenig.

Sommario/riassunto

In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago.