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May 13 to 15,
2011
Naxi Conference
The Rubin Museum
of Art is
hosting an
academic
conference from
May 14-15
dedicated to the
Naxi of
southwest China.
The conference
marks the
opening of
Quentin
Roosevelt's
China: Ancestral
Realms of the
Naxi
(May
13–September 19,
2011). While the
exhibition
showcases the
art and
artifacts of the
Naxi as they
lived over
seventy years
ago, at this
conference
anthropologists,
linguists,
preservationists,
and other
professionals
will exchange
knowledge and
ask questions
about the
current
situation of the
Naxi and look to
the future.
The Naxi—one
of China's
fifty-five
ethnic
minority
nationalities—traditionally
practiced
the Dongba
religion.
Dongba has
distinct
artistic
expressions,
though it
reflects
influences
from Bon,
Buddhism,
Taoism,
Confucianism,
Mongolian
shamanism,
and popular
cults. The
religion's
ritual
corpus,
comprising
some one
thousand
ceremonies,
is contained
in
manuscripts
filled with
Dongba
script—the
only living
pictographic
language in
the world.
Examples of
these
manuscripts,
as well as
funeral
scrolls,
altar
sticks,
thangka
paintings,
and ritual
objects
reveal Naxi
art as it
was found in
Lijiang
before
China's
Revolution
in 1949.
AAARI members
received
discounted
tickets to this
two-day program.
Rather than the
regular price of
$35, AAARI
members are only
$20. This
discounted fee
is available to
your members
when they call
the Rubin Museum
of Art’s Box
Office at
212-620-5000
ext. 344 and
identifying
themselves as an
AAARI member.
For more
details:
www.rmanyc.org/naxiconference
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