Alexandra Kaloyanides
Stanford University
6 Papers
5 Citations
Alexandra Kaloyanides is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Burmese & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications.
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"Show Us Your God": Marilla Baker Ingalls and the Power of Religious Objects in Nineteenth-Century Burma
TL;DR: The authors examines the unusual evangelical work of Marilla Baker Ingalls, an American Baptist missionary to Burma from 1851-1902, and argues that these objects transformed Ingalls' American Baptist Christianity into a kind of Burmese religion that revolved around revered objects.
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The flower, then the sword: The militarisation of Burma's most beautiful book
TL;DR: The authors examines the highly ornamented Burmese manuscript known as the Kammavaaca to understand what its luxurious materials and distinctive illustrations reveal about Buddhist practice and politics in Burma's last kingdom, the Konbaung dynasty (1752-1885).
The Old Gods: Whales, Oil, and Teak
TL;DR: The following exchange took place over the autumn months of 2020 between Judith Brunton, Chip Callahan, and Alex Kaloyanides as discussed by the authors , where each of them read each other's original offerings to the Characterizing Material Economies of Religion in the Americas project.