The veneration of ancestors lay at the heart of social and spiritual life among the Peranakans of Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries.
While this might seem to suggest a strict continuation of archaic Chinese tradition, the integration of ancestral shrines within domestic architecture in the port cities of island Southeast Asia over this period instigated dynamic adaptations and improvisations of this tradition. These varied responses reveal that Peranakan cultural life was not static and traditional, but in fact modern and global.
Join independent scholar Peter Lee as he explores how ancestral altars and the rumah abu (a hall or house with the family’s ancestral altar), illuminate the ways Peranakan communities adapted inherited traditions to the cosmopolitan world of Southeast Asia’s port cities.
When
09 April, 19:00.
Age
0+
Price
Registration (with a $10 refundable deposit) is required.: 10 SGD
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Address
Singapore1 Empress Place Singapore River, South S179555
How to get there?
By public transport: The ACM is a 5-minute walk from Raffles Place MRT station (Exit H).
By car: Can be reached via a road behind Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, off Fullerton Road near Anderson Bridge.
Parking: At the basement car park of the New Parliament House, at Six Battery Road and at One Fullerton across from the Fullerton Hotel.