About elephant tusks, recluses, and beautiful girls: the banana plant and its symbolic meanings in Old Javanese literature

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

About elephant tusks, recluses, and beautiful girls: the banana plant and its symbolic meanings in Old Javanese literature

Original language description

Three themes and contexts in which the banana plant and its parts figure in Old Javanese literature are discussed in detail. First, a symbolic meaning of the banana leaf that seems to have been shared over much of the Asian Buddhist ecumene. Second, symbolic and ethno-biological meanings ascribed to wild banana cultivars. Finally, I discuss the so-called ‘ivory-banana’, represented in Old Javanese poetry as a big-fruited and superior variety, arguing that this image is conspicuously similar to an apparently ancient banana cultivar (triploid AAB) called in modern Indonesian Pisang Tanduk (‘Horn Banana’).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Pandanus

ISSN

1802-7997

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

67-80

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