Samuel K Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel K Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel K |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lorenzetti, Tiziana: Understanding the Hindu Temple. History, Symbols, and Forms
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 280
Historical Contexts and the Construction of Twenty-first Century Asian Art Worlds
Our hearts should go out in sympathy for anyone aspiring to make serious art today. The art game is about the making and marketing of brands. The objects themselves are incidental, and thus, formalist talk about aesthetic values primarily serves to promote unconsciousness, deflecting attention away from the dominant, monetary values organizing the game. Accordingly, art criticism is best focused at the level of the public system. In his recent bo…
Lived Cosmologies and Objectified Commodities: Reinventing the Traditional Art of India in a World of Cultural Tourism
This essay examines how the significance of ancient South Asian monuments is transformed when reframed by the practices of cultural tourism, which are grounded in the values of a modern, globalizing, economic cosmology. Ethnographic evidence collected on a visit to the archaeological park and museum at Sarnath, site of the Buddha's first discourse and home to some of the most celebrated masterpieces of ancient Indian sculpture, are here analyzed …
Ritual as a Mode of Production: Ethnoarchaeology and Creative Practice in Hindu Temple Arts
This essay examines some of the ethnoarchaeological evidence of contemporary South Indian Hindu temple and image-making practices to show how they can contribute to a more adequate understanding of ancient South Asian monuments and their aesthetic qualities. Without such concrete evidence, a contemporary historical imagination, by default, is understandably liable to represent the past as a series of discontinuous, creative innovations produced b…
Text and Practice in South Asian Art: An Ethnographic Perspective
Making Temples/Making Selves: Essentialism and Construction in the Identity of the Traditional South Indian Artist
(2003). Making Temples/Making Selves: Essentialism and Construction in the Identity of the Traditional South Indian Artist. South Asian Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 125-140
Would the real Undagi please stand up? On the social location of Balinese architectural knowledge
Would the Real Undagi Please Stand up? On the Social Location of Balinese Architectural KnowledgeThe 'beautiful structures of wood and stone' (Lansing 1983:51) which constitute the traditional architecture of Bali are one of the more visible signs of the tenacity of tradition on the island, and a consistent source of pride to locals, delight to visitors and profit to tourism operators.While there is a substantial body of literature on the other a…
Unfinished Work at Mamallapuram or, What Is an Indian Art Object
The Revenge of Practical Reason? A Review Essay On Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 251. Price $US 24.95
Contemporary Temple Construction in South India: The Srirangam Rajagopuram
Would the real Undagi please stand up? On the social location of Balinese architectural knowledge
Would the Real Undagi Please Stand up? On the Social Location of Balinese Architectural KnowledgeThe 'beautiful structures of wood and stone' (Lansing 1983:51) which constitute the traditional architecture of Bali are one of the more visible signs of the tenacity of tradition on the island, and a consistent source of pride to locals, delight to visitors and profit to tourism operators.While there is a substantial body of literature on the other a…
Ritual as a Mode of Production: Ethnoarchaeology and Creative Practice in Hindu Temple Arts
This essay examines some of the ethnoarchaeological evidence of contemporary South Indian Hindu temple and image-making practices to show how they can contribute to a more adequate understanding of ancient South Asian monuments and their aesthetic qualities. Without such concrete evidence, a contemporary historical imagination, by default, is understandably liable to represent the past as a series of discontinuous, creative innovations produced b…
Contemporary Temple Construction in South India: The Srirangam Rajagopuram
The Revenge of Practical Reason? A Review Essay On Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. By Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. xvii + 251. Price $US 24.95
Unfinished Work at Mamallapuram or, What Is an Indian Art Object
Would the real Undagi please stand up? On the social location of Balinese architectural knowledge
Would the Real Undagi Please Stand up? On the Social Location of Balinese Architectural KnowledgeThe 'beautiful structures of wood and stone' (Lansing 1983:51) which constitute the traditional architecture of Bali are one of the more visible signs of the tenacity of tradition on the island, and a consistent source of pride to locals, delight to visitors and profit to tourism operators.While there is a substantial body of literature on the other a…
Text and Practice in South Asian Art: An Ethnographic Perspective
Making Temples/Making Selves: Essentialism and Construction in the Identity of the Traditional South Indian Artist
(2003). Making Temples/Making Selves: Essentialism and Construction in the Identity of the Traditional South Indian Artist. South Asian Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 125-140
Ritual as a Mode of Production: Ethnoarchaeology and Creative Practice in Hindu Temple Arts
This essay examines some of the ethnoarchaeological evidence of contemporary South Indian Hindu temple and image-making practices to show how they can contribute to a more adequate understanding of ancient South Asian monuments and their aesthetic qualities. Without such concrete evidence, a contemporary historical imagination, by default, is understandably liable to represent the past as a series of discontinuous, creative innovations produced b…
Historical Contexts and the Construction of Twenty-first Century Asian Art Worlds
Our hearts should go out in sympathy for anyone aspiring to make serious art today. The art game is about the making and marketing of brands. The objects themselves are incidental, and thus, formalist talk about aesthetic values primarily serves to promote unconsciousness, deflecting attention away from the dominant, monetary values organizing the game. Accordingly, art criticism is best focused at the level of the public system. In his recent bo…
Lived Cosmologies and Objectified Commodities: Reinventing the Traditional Art of India in a World of Cultural Tourism
This essay examines how the significance of ancient South Asian monuments is transformed when reframed by the practices of cultural tourism, which are grounded in the values of a modern, globalizing, economic cosmology. Ethnographic evidence collected on a visit to the archaeological park and museum at Sarnath, site of the Buddha's first discourse and home to some of the most celebrated masterpieces of ancient Indian sculpture, are here analyzed …
Lorenzetti, Tiziana: Understanding the Hindu Temple. History, Symbols, and Forms
Anthropos , Seite 278 - 280
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