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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Rama's regret: In The Ramayana, page 7.9; Rama sits on a riverbank with four women, trying to forget Sita, as portrayed on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Rama sits at the corner of a riverbank, holding a piece of food in his right hand and gazing out at the water. A young and beautiful woman...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama's soldiers capture Mongkut: In The Ramayana, page 7.11; Rama's army captures his son Mongkut in the forest, as portrayed in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. A circle of Rama's soldiers standing at attention, holding tall lances and dressed in alternate brown and blue uniforms, surrounds Sita and her...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Rama, Sita, and Laksman leave the palace: In The Ramayana, page 2.1; On this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Sita, Rama, and Laksman depart the palace in Ayudhya for fourteen years of forest exile. Here they are shown with Sita's skin painted white on the left, Rama's painted green in the middle, and Laksman's painted...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana continues the fight: In The Ramayana, page 6.2; Ravana arrives on his chariot to fight, as seen in a mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The ten-armed Ravana perches atop his gold chariot wielding spears, swords, and lances in each hand. His remaining allies, dressed in gold, run at the sides of...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana dies: In The Ramayana, page 6.9; In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, both the women and Ravana are dressed in royal Siamese clothes and crowns painted with gold leaf paint. The long-haired and fair young women who sit on opposite sides of Ravana's body hold up their bent left...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana is wounded: In The Ramayana, page 6.7; Ravana sits wounded by an arrow shot by Rama, as depicted in a mural scene at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sitting on the ground beside his chariot, Ravana holds himself up with his left arm as he looks down at the arrow poking out of his chest. Ravana is shown...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana kidnaps Sita: In The Ramayana, page 2.9; This Indian painting shows Ravana at left posing as an elderly hermit with Sita and then, at right, in his original mult-headed form, abducting her in his chariot. Sita is depicted wearing an orange Indian sari and she stands outside a very modest thatch dwelling...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana plots Sita's abduction: In The Ramayana, page 2.6; This detail on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts the demon king Ravana siting on a royal pavillion platform and gesturing with twenty arms (ten emerging from each shoulder). Ravana is speaking to another blue-faced demon partially seen at...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana prepares a poison spear: In The Ramayana, page 5.1; Dressed in royal gold attire, the demon king Ravana sits in a luxurious crimson and blue T-shaped pavillion as he prepares a poisoned spear to fight Rama's army. Bowls of food and drink sit nearby for Ravana's comfort. Below the platform walking on the right...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana seems invincible: In The Ramayana, page 6.3; An Indian painting shows Rama shooting arrows in battle with Ravana's demons. On a bright yellow background, the painting shows Rama with dark blue skin stepping forward and shooting a volley of arrows with a drawn bow. He is wearing only a tunic skirt and...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana sets Hanuman on fire: In The Ramayana, page 3.10; In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, Ravana dressed in royal Siamese apparel descends the stairs of his palace thrusting a fiery torch towards Hanuman. Hanuman sits on the tile floor at left, confined and bound with oil-soaked cotton rope. Another...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana tempts Sita: In The Ramayana, page 2.13; The demon king Ravana visits the captured Princess Sita in a wooden puppet theater performance at Yogyakarta in July 1986. The Ravana puppet, here painted with red skin unlike his green-skinned counterpart in Thai mural art, waves a powerful sword at Princess...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana's dream: In The Ramayana, page 4.1; In this mural detail at the Emerald Buddha Temple, the demon king Ravana has his dream interpreted by his younger brother Bhibek, the royal astrologer. Ravana is shown here seated on a raised cushion in golden attire, waving his ten arms, while his brother...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Ravana's mermaid daughter: In The Ramayana, page 4.9; The demon king Ravana instructs his mermaid daughter to ruin Rama's bridge to Lanka, as seen on a painted mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The royally clothed Ravana (with green skin) gestures with four arms as he jumps with a wide-legged stance from a...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Reading and chatting: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 16; Most Southeast Asians use woven mats somewhere in their homes, often as decorative floor coverings, but also sometimes as spaces for eating or sleeping. Mats essentially pre-date most forms of furniture in Southeast Asia, and they were originally all woven...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Reclaimed by the forest: In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 16; Ta Prohm was built as a double-moated, royal monastery during the reign of Jayavarman VII at the end of the twelfth century. As a Mahayana Buddhist, the king dedicated the monument to his mother envisioned as a "bodhisattva" or saint of compassion. The images...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Reunification: In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 15; Now a museum concerning the fall of Saigon to the Communist North Vietnamese in 1975, the Reunification Palace formerly was the official residence for presidents of South Vietnam.; By Lorraine Aragon.

Reviving traditional arts: In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 20; Here, three female palace dancers wearing silk costumes perform in Phnom Penh. The young women dancing in unison have their left feet raised with upward toes, their left arms gesturing forward, and their right hands on their hips. Each one wears a differently-colored,...; By Lorraine Aragon.

River trade: In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 14; This boat is docked along the Mekong River near Mytho. Such boats, propelled by outboard motors mounted on the back, are typical, medium-sized river and coastal island ferry boats in Southeast Asia. The waterways of the Mekong are the region's primary conduit...; By Lorraine Aragon.

A royal bath: In The Ramayana, page 1.7; Sita is shown taking a royal bath before her wedding to Rama in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sita bathes sitting on the edge of an elegant platform shelter extending into a large tiled pool. Two women servants pour water from a gold basin over Sita...; By Lorraine Aragon.

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