Women of the Kakawin World
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archipelago
ascetics
Author_Helen Creese
Balinese Courts
Betel Quids
Bridal Chamber
Bridal Couple
Bride's Choice
Bride’s Choice
Capture Marriage
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court poetry analysis
courts
Cow Dung
cultural anthropology Indonesia
east
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female
Female Ascetics
gender studies
Hari's Lineage
Hari’s Lineage
hermitage
historical gender roles in Java Bali
indic
Indic Courts
indonesian
Indonesian Archipelago
Indonesian Past
java
Kakawin
Ma Huan
mountain
Mountain Hermitages
National Library
Ne Te
Pandawa Brothers
Religious Blessings
royal patronage arts
Southeast Asian literature
Stamford Raffles
Thomas Stamford Raffles
Timeless
Widow Sacrifice
widow self-immolation
Widow Suicide
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765601599
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in this poetry form include war, love, and marriage. It is a rich source for the cultural and social history of Indonesia. Still being produced in Bali today, kakawin remain of interest and relevance to Balinese cultural and religious identities. This book draws on the epic kakawin poetry tradition to examine the institutions of courtship and marriage in the Indic courts. Its primary purpose is to explore the experiences of women belonging to the kakawin world, although the texts by nature reveal more about the discourses concerning women, sexuality, and gender than of the historical experiences of individual women. For over a thousand years these royal courts were major patrons of the arts. The court-sponsored epic works that have survived provide an ongoing literary testimony to the cultural and social concerns of court society from its ealiest recorded history until its demise at the end of the nineteenth century. This study examines the idealized images of women and sexuality that have pervaded Javanese and Balinese culture and provides insights into a number of cultural practices such as sati or bela (self-immolation of widows).
