ASSOC PROF IRVING CHAN JOHNSON is Deputy Head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2004. His main research areas are the Thai Buddhist community of Kelantan, Malaysia, in relation to issues of historical production, ethnicity, and religion; and traditional visual and performing arts in Bali and central and southern Thailand. He is also the founder of Eka Suwara Santhi, Singapore’s only Balinese dance group.
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Hashtagging an Ancient Art: Internet Technologies and Mask-Making in Contemporary Bali
Cok Alit Artawan is a lecturer at the Indonesian Institute for the Arts (Institut Seni Indonesia, or ISI) in Bali’s capital city of Denpasar. An avid Facebook user, he is also a carver of wooden…