Oppitz
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | From painting to writing | ||
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| Original title / Originaltitel | Von der Malerei zur Schrift | ||
| Summary / Zusammenfassung | This research project seeks to discover common ground between certain forms of religious painting found among some of the indigenous societies of the Sino-Tibetan marches and a type of pictographic writing employed by Naxi religious practitioners as mnemotechnical tool to record a body of ritual lore handed down orally. The religious paintings investigated have, as a rule, narrative functions and serve divinatory purposes, in a way similar to the use of the pictographs. Moreover, the Naxi picture writing and the religious paintings juxtaposed resemble one another in their respective graphic styles. Weitere Informationen |
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| Publications / Publikationen | Oppitz, Michael: Naxi. Dinge, Mythen, Piktogramme. Zürich 1997.Oppitz, Michael and Hsu, Elisabeth (eds.): Naxi and Moso Ethnography. Kin, Rites, Pictographs. Zurich 1998. | ||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Writing Systems, Painting, Iconography, Art, Oral Traditions, Anthropology, Naxi, Qiang | ||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career), Others |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jan 2001 to Dec 2005 |