The Sinophone roots of Javanese Nini Towong
This article proposes that Nini Towong, a Javanese game involving a possessed doll, is an involution of fifth-century Chinese spirit-basket divination. The investigation is less concerned with originist theories than it is a discussion of the Chinese in Indonesia. The Chinese have been in Southeast...
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2017
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