Review of Select Works by Raymond Corbey | “Three Recent Publications about Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography” by Antonio J. Guerreiro

 

Spirit Figure | Raja Ampat Islands
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 

Three Recent Publications about Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography

 

CORBEY, Raymond, Of Jars and Gongs. Two Keys to Ot Danum Dayak Cosmology, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2016, maps, photographs, bibliography, 88 p.

CORBEY, Raymond, Raja Ampat Ritual Art. Spirits Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea’s Far West, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017, maps, photographs, bibliography, 164 p.

CORBEY, Raymond, Jurookng. Shamanic Amulets from Southeast Borneo, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2018, maps, photographs, line drawings of objects, bibliography, 243 p.

 

by Antonio J. Guerreiro

 
 
CORBEY, Raymond, Of Jars and Gongs. Two Keys to Ot Danum Dayak Cosmology, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2016, maps, photographs, bibliography, 88 p.
CORBEY, Raymond, Raja Ampat Ritual Art. Spirits Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea’s Far West, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017, maps, photographs, bibliography, 164 p.
CORBEY, Raymond, Jurookng. Shamanic Amulets from Southeast Borneo, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2018, maps, photographs, line drawings of objects, bibliography, 243 p.
 

This article was generously provided by Antonio J. Guerreiro and Moussons.

 

Ancestor Figure | Korwar
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ancestor Figure | Korwar
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ancestor Figure | Korwar
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ancestor Figure | Korwar
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Spirit Figure | Raja Ampat Islands
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Spirit Figure | Raja Ampat Islands
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ancestral Couple | Geelvinck Bay Region
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Glazed blue-green martavaan with six ears and decoration of core edging, flowers, and animals in relief
© Princessehof Ceramics Museum

Martavaan with four ears and decoration of face, hand and flowers in relief
© Princessehof Ceramics Museum

Martavaan with decoration of lion heads and dragons in relief, covered with polychrome glaze
© Princessehof Ceramics Museum

Martavaan with six ears and decoration of cord edging and two blue dragons in relief
© Princessehof Ceramics Museum

Dayak Amulet | Borneo
© Werner Forman Archive | Formerly Philip Goldman Collection, London

Dayak Charms | Borneo
© Werner Forman Archive | Formerly Philip Goldman Collection, London

Dayak Charm | Borneo
© Werner Forman Archive | Formerly Philip Goldman Collection, London

 
 

Antonio J. Guerreiro

 
 
Antonio J. Guerreiro Art of the Ancestors
 

Dr. Antonio J. Guerreiro received his Ph.D at EHESS in Paris (1985).  After initially focusing on architectural, social and cultural anthropology studies, he later gained insight and expertise in museography. Dr. Guerreiro has researched Hindu-Buddhist iconography and architecture in Southeast Asia, and has since the 1980’s extensively published on Malay-Indonesian ethnic cultures with a special focus on Sumatra and Borneo. While lecturing in the field of material culture studies,- i.e. vernacular architecture and sculpture - Dr. Guerreiro has worked as a consultant for various museographical projects in France and abroad besides curating/co-curating diverse exhibitions. During the 1990s, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Anthropology, University of Tokyo.

He is currently a Senior Research associate at the Institut de Recherches sur l’Asie (IrASIA, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France) and a member of ICOM-France (Unesco-Paris). He is also Secretary-General of the Society of Euroasiatic Studies at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. In 2017-2018 he was a Research Fellow at the Sarawak Museum Campus Project (SMCP) and Heritage Trail project in Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia). Dr. Guerreiro is still doing consultancy for the Museum while conducting research on woodcarving traditions, museum collections and the conservation of monumental structures of the Orang Ulu peoples of Sarawak. He is also actively engaged in researching colonial photography in Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei, Kalimantan). 

 
 
 

Author’s Note: Errata

On page 185, it should read “CORBEY, Raymond, Raja Ampat Ritual Art. Spirits Priests and Ancestor Cults in New Guinea’s Far West, Leiden: C. Zwartenkot Art Books, 2017, maps, photographs, bibliography, 164 p.”

Bibliography: WÄFLER, Markus, 2017 Felsmalerien IndonesiensBand 4 : Motivkatalog. Borsdof, Editions Winterwork. 473 p.

 

Colophon

Authors | © Antonio J. Guerreiro
Publication | Moussons
Issue | n° 34, 2019-2, 185-202
Year of Publication | 2019