This book aims to demonstrate that Indonesia\'s woven textiles can be developed and applied to interior design and lifted out of their traditional context to become relevant in the modern world. It covers its traditional meaning, its journey from the traditional context into the worlds of modernity and also the exploration of new ideas. Hopefully, it will motivate more people to pay greater att…
For a number of centuries, Nalanda Mahavihara was a beacon of knowledge and wisdom in Asia Scholars came from all over Asia to study a range of suject including philosophy and logic. Education in Nalanda was holistic, imparting to the student a view of life that was open-minded, tolerant, and at one with nature.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\r\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nThe philosophy of Buddhism underlay that education…
Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and definition of the object itself, the senses and embodied experience of objects. No other volume bring…