The COUNCIL ON SOUTHEAST ASIA STUDIES at Yale University oversees a multifaceted interdisciplinary program promoting education, research, and intellectual exchange on the cultures, politics, history and economies of Southeast Asia. Yale currently maintains one of the most extensive Southeast Asia library collections in the United States. Read more about our program…
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Wednesday, April 24
“Extracting Religion in Myanmar”
Alexandra Kaloyanides, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
**JUST RELEASED !!
Monograph #69
RAMA X:
The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn
Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun
The Department of Indo-Pacific Art has recently opened an additional display featuring their exceptional collection of Indonesian shadow puppets (wayang kulit) and related arts in the second-floor galleries of Asian art at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Performance and Court in Indonesia
In 2017 the Indo-Pacific Department received a magnificent donation of more than 20,000 Indonesian puppets and objects related to their performance. The collection was brought together by the Swiss scientist Walter Angst who had spent many years in western Indonesia studying primates. During that time, he became deeply interested in the shadow puppet performances he observed there. He started collecting the puppets, but rather than simply bringing together a variety of them, he acquired the complete sets needed to perform the complex stories of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, drawn from Indian epics, as well as indigenous Indonesian tales and stories from Islamic and Chinese backgrounds. This performance art reached its high point in the courts of Central Java in the 19th and early 20th century. This display presents one of these royal sets and places it into the wider courtly context.
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