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Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (2022)
Book Chapter
Harris, R., & Isa Elkun, A. (2022). Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In A. Impey (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-24

The national hit song Little Apple released by the Chopstick brothers in May 2014, was a catchy, synthesizer-heavy, retro-style love song with an insistent beat. The song also resounded across the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region in north-west China... Read More about Music, Terror, and Civilizing Projects in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire (2022)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2022). The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire. In T. May, & M. Hope (Eds.), The Mongol World (534-559). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315165172-43

Understanding Yuan art and culture is a function of our contested present. Post-Yuan, late-imperial claims to Chinese cultural exceptionalism still pertain and are woven into the party-state’s sometimes rancorous claims to power and legitimacy. Yuan... Read More about The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire.

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Ulrich, G., & Impey, A. (2022). Introduction. In J. Fifer, A. Impey, P. G. Kirchschlaeger, M. Nowak, & G. Ulrich (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (1-11). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the very idea of human rights and its role in contemporary international law. It devotes to probing a broad range of affin... Read More about Introduction.

Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan (2022)
Book Chapter
Impey, A. (2022). Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan. In J. Fifer, A. Impey, P. G. Kirchschlaeger, M. Nowak, & G. Ulrich (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Human Rights (127-139). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043478-11

South Sudan is the newest country in Africa. Half a century of almost continuous civil war with Sudan – in which approximately 2.5 million people were killed and over 4 million people displaced. Weak institutional capacity and extensive government co... Read More about Orality and the poetics of forgiveness in South Sudan.

The Mandapam in Nayaka South India (2022)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2022). The Mandapam in Nayaka South India. In D. Mason (Ed.), Storied Stone: Reframing the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s South Indian Temple Hall (82-93). Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press

Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art (2022)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2022). Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art. In S. C. Berkwitz, & A. Thompson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351026666-25

There is a window at the heights of the monumental structure of fourteenth-century Wat Si Chum at Sukhothai, northern Thailand. The window looks in, not out, over the shoulder of the colossal seated Buddha statue, allowing one to peer down discreetly... Read More about Icons: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art.

Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context. In E. Brac de la Perrière, A. El Khiari, & A. Vernay-Nouri (Eds.), Le périples de Kalila et Dimna. Quand les fables voyagent dans la littérature et les arts du monde islamique (95-129). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498143_005

This article seeks to situate early Arabic illustrated Kalila wa Dimna manuscripts with regard to both text and image, and to position them within the broader context of thirteenth and fourteenth century Arab painting. The transmission of the various... Read More about Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context.

Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia (2022)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2022). Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia. In J. Carbine, & E. Davis (Eds.), Sīmās: Foundations of Buddhist Religion (43-65). University Of Hawai'i Press

This paper discusses the development of the sīmā stone tradition from the earliest archaeological evidence in what are today the areas of Northeast Thailand and Central Laos to its wider distribution across Mainland Southeast Asia. The earliest subst... Read More about Rituals set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Development of the Sīmā Stone tradition in Southeast Asia.

Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe. In I. Dolezalek, & M. Guidetti (Eds.), Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe, Studies in Art Historiography (23-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105657-3

In this article, I shall discuss the changing perceptions of particular objects, the advances in scholarship that may produce such changes, and whether any such developments in scholarship can be attributable to Enlightenment thought. In post-Renaiss... Read More about Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Buddhismus und Jainismus in der tamilischen Kulturgeschichte [Buddhism and Jainism in Tamil Cultural History] (2022)
Book Chapter
Branfoot, C. (2022). Buddhismus und Jainismus in der tamilischen Kulturgeschichte [Buddhism and Jainism in Tamil Cultural History]. In G. Noack, M. Muthukumaraswamy, & L. Priester-Lasch (Eds.), Von Liebe und Krieg: Tamilische Geschichte(n) aus Indien und der Welt [Of Love and War: Tamil (Hi-)Stories in India and the World] (166-175). Linden-Museum Stuttgart und Sandstein Verlag

Shwezigon Pagoda (2022)
Book Chapter
Tan, H. (2022). Shwezigon Pagoda. In P. L. Bonfitto (Ed.), World Architecture and Society: From Stonehenge to One World Trade Center (643-648). ABC-CLIO

What is a mandala? (2021)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (2021). What is a mandala?. In E. J. Harris (Ed.), Buddhism in Five Minutes (254-258). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.40790

The mandala is first and foremost a ritual tool. In its simplest form, it consists of a square space marked by protective features and a circle of deities within it. The ground marks a purified space to which deities can be invited during the ritual.

Why do Buddhists make art? (2021)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (2021). Why do Buddhists make art?. In E. J. Harris (Ed.), Buddhism in Five Minutes (248-253). Equinox. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.40789

There is no term for “art” in Buddhist literature. Instead, the terms used make clear that what we understand as art today was made for a purpose. Buddhist texts also rarely explain this purpose, so the information has to be pieced together from scan... Read More about Why do Buddhists make art?.