The Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters Situating Scriptural Practices

Richard Fox, Ph.D. (2002) School of Oriental and African Studies (London), is a member of the Special Research Initiative on Material Text Cultures (SFB 933) at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. His research focuses on religion, media and performance in South and Southeast Asia.

Annette Hornbacher, Ph.D. (1993) Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute für Ethnologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Her ethnographic research has focused on Indonesia, and especially on Bali, where she investigated ritual and theatrical performance as kinaesthetic cosmological knowledge.