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Title Fragile traditions : Indonesian art in jeopardy / edited by Paul Michael Taylor
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xi, 171 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Foreword / Suwati Kartiwa -- 1. Introduction / Paul Michael Taylor -- 2. "Without Cloth We Cannot Marry": The Textiles of Lamaholot in Transition / Ruth Barnes -- 3. Rape of the Ancestors: Discovery, Display, and Destruction of the Ancestral Statuary of Tana Toraja /Eric Crystal -- 4. The Adaptation of Indigenous Forms to Western Taste: The Case of Nias / Jerome Feldman --5. The Responsible and the Irresponsible: Observations on the Destruction and Preservation of Indonesian Art /Jean-Paul Barbier -- 6. The Nusantara Concept of Culture: Local Traditions and National Identity as Expressed in Indonesia's Museums / Paul Michael Taylor -- 7. International Art Collecting, Tourism, and a Tribal Region in Indonesia / Laurence A. G. Moss -- 8. Whither Dayak Art? / Michael Heppell -- 9. Unraveling Narratives / Shelly Errington
Summary Focuses on the complete effects of the primitive art market and various kinds of private & institutional collecting on the art traditions of Indonesia
Notes Maps on endpapers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- Indonesia.
Ethnic art -- Indonesia.
Author Taylor, Paul Michael, 1953-
LC no. 94006320
ISBN 0824815335