Lorraine Aragon

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Lorraine Aragon is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Peace returns to the earth: In The Ramayana, page 7.15; Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick...; By Lorraine Aragon.

The people of Ayudhya mourn Sita: In The Ramayana, page 7.10; This mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows the people of Ayudhya mourning below Sita's empty throne. At the lower right, men courtiers clasp their hands and kneel in prayer. At the lower left, royal women sit holding their hands to their faces and weeping...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Playing dead: In The Ramayana, page 4.3; Floating on her back extended in the water, Ravana's niece pretends to be the dead Sita, as seen in a painted mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The niece is dressed in royal Siamese clothes and a tall crown, all painted in gold leaf paint. Tall rocks...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Po Nagar: In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 2; Here, a Cham tower with ascending smaller levels and rounded corner towers is seen through an archway in the Po Nagar complex at Nha Trang in southern Vietnam. Tall arched forms are characteristic of these monuments built of brick and stone by ethnic Chams...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Power and grace: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 12; Most of the original buildings of Hué's Imperial City date to ambitious efforts by Nguyen dynasty rulers in the 1800s to control both the north and south of Vietnam from a centrally located capital. While drawing on the symbolic model of the powerful Chinese...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Processing fish: In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 5; The three women are working with knives and baskets to sort and clean the fish. The wall behind them is the harbor's seawall.; By Lorraine Aragon.

A procession: In The Ramayana, page 2.2; A mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama, his wife Sita, and his brother Laksman as they are leaving with a procession to go to the forest. Laksman appears on the left, Sita in the sedan chair in the middle, and Rama with his characteristic...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Produce market: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 10; The produce vendors have their wares displayed in baskets or on mats, and they sit shaded by broad-brimmed, palm-leaf sunhats in front of storefronts with upper story apartments. Customers on foot or on motorcycles circulate through the street. Centralized...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Protection from the sun: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 6; Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Quenching the demon's fire: In The Ramayana, page 3.13; In this mural scene painted at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a wise hermit tells Hanuman how to quench the fire on his tail. Hanuman kneels on a red tiled floor holding up his tail in distress. A bearded hermit listens, dressed in golden clothes as he sits in...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama and Laksman find the dead Sita: In The Ramayana, page 4.4; In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama (with green skin), his younger brother Laksman, and Ravana's niece posing as the dead Sita all are are wearing royal Siamese clothes and tall pointed crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The fake Sita's...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama and Sita are crowned: In The Ramayana, page 6.14; In this mural detail from the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama and Sita sit separately on high columned platforms back in their royal pavillion at Ayudhya. Large gold chalices are set in front of Rama on a blue platform. Below the platforms on a tiled floor, monkey...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama calls to Garuda for aid: In The Ramayana, page 5.10; As Rama's monkey troops lie struggling on the ground with serpents at left, Rama stands on one foot and gracefully releases an arrow signal into the sky. The arrow calls his ally, the Garuda King, a bird deity seen in the upper right above a scenic forest...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama in the demon world: In The Ramayana, page 6.1; Hanuman rescues and carries the unconscious Rama. This Emerald Buddha Temple mural image shows two sequential events painted within the same rocky outdoor landscape. At left, Hanuman finds Rama lying unconscious within a black wire cage. Hanuman balances on...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama is exiled: In The Ramayana, page 1.11; This mural painting from the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama bidding farewell to people at his father's palace in the kingdom of Ayudhya. Rama, whose skin is painted green, stands in golden royal clothes on a pavillion platform at the center. Subjects kneel...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama learns that Sita is alive: In The Ramayana, page 7.12; The story of Sita's son is told to Rama at the palace, as portrayed in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama sits elevated on his palace veranda listening to Laksman and his other courtiers tell the story of how they only pretended to kill the...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's army marches on Lanka: In The Ramayana, page 4.6; In this mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Rama's officers ride on horses and wear the most colorful and elaborate clothes. One carries a triangular flag. Foot soldiers carrying swords and lances are dressed uniformly in red shirts with blue cloths wrapped...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's army reaches Lanka: In The Ramayana, page 4.13; In this mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple, a golden, horse-drawn chariot carries Rama in its tiered-roof tower, as his accompanying army marches across the completed stone bridge. Rama's monkey troops walk beside and behind his chariot. Waves crest in the...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's brothers go to his wedding: In The Ramayana, page 1.6; Rama's brothers are seen going to his wedding on this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama's brothers, dressed in golden clothes and crowns ride on gold chariots just outside the white palace walls of Ayudhya. A long line of their male attendants...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's jealousy: In The Ramayana, page 7.1; A stone stele at Prambanan Temple shows Sita sitting and talking with a monkey. Realistically portrayed, the monkey at left in this carved bas relief sits cross-legged and gestures his hands forward with the palms turned up. Sita also sits cross-legged facing...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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