On the Subject of "Java" - Couverture souple

Pemberton, John

 
9780801499630: On the Subject of "Java"
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801499631 ISBN 13 : 9780801499630
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

What are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? John Pemberton explores these questions in this far-reaching ethnographic and historical interpretation of cultural discourse in Indonesia since 1965. Pemberton considers in particular how the appearance of order under Soeharto's repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values.

Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imaginary. He pursues the fugitive signs of circumstances that might resist the powers of New Order rule through unexpected village practices, among graveyard spirits, and within ascetic refuges.

Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges. Providing a close reading of a number of Central Javanese manuscripts from the late eighteenth century on, Pemberton outlines the conditions of knowledge formation in Indonesia since the beginning of Dutch colonial control. As he overturns common assumptions concerning colonial encounters, he discloses the gradual emergence in these texts of a discursive figure inscribed in contrast to the increasingly invasive presence of the Dutch: a figuration of difference that came to be called "Java."

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À propos de l?auteur

John Pemberton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801499631
ISBN 13 
9780801499630
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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Brandenburg
14959
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9780801426728: On the Subject of "Java"

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0801426723 ISBN 13 :  9780801426728
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1994
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