Introduction
Wrapping and unwrapping art / Morgan Pitelka
Functions
From the living rock: understanding figural representation in early South Asia / Robert Decaroli
Disposable but indispensable: the earthenware vessel as vehicle of meaning in Japan / Louise Allison Cort
From the wedding chamber to the museum: relocating the ritual arts of Madhubani / Richard H. Davis
In the realm of the indigo queen: dyeing, exchange magic, and the elusive tourist dollar on Sumba / Janet Hoskins
Movements
Plunder, markets, and museums: the biographies of Chinese imperial objects in Europe and North America / James L. Hevia
Situating moving objects: a Sino-Japanese catalogue of imported items, 800 CE to the present / Cynthea J. Bogel
Memories
Angkor revisited: the state of statuary / Ashley Thompson
An ancestral keris, Balinese kingship, and a modern presidency / Lene Pedersen
Raw ingredients and deposit boxes in Balinese sanctuaries: a congruence of obsessions / Kaja M. McGowan
Conclusion
Ways of experiencing art: art history, television, and Javanese wayang / Jan Mrázek
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