Solo in the New Order : : Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City / / James T. Siegel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Siegel, James T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.) :; 8 b&w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; PART ONE Language and Hierarchy: The Establishment of Translation --; CHAPTER ONE The Javanese Language and Related Matters --; CHAPTER TWO A Neighborhood in the New Order: Hierarchy and Social Order --; CHAPTER THREE Neighborhood Politics --; PART TWO The Aneh, or Oddity In and Out of Place --; CHAPTER FOUR Surakartan Theater Under the New Order --; CHAPTER FIVE Phantasm of Shock: The Street and the House --; CHAPTER SIX Phantasm of Shock: The Classroom --; PART THREE Money, or The Failure of the Anéh --; CHAPTER SEVEN Money: Its Domesticated Forms --; CHAPTER EIGHT Topchords Pop Music Society: School, Music, and Clothes --; CHAPTER NINE Money Comes Into View: Students, Their Fashions, and Chinese --; CHAPTER TEN Images, Odors, Javanese Death --; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Durable Jokes of the New Order --; CHAPTER TWELVE . . . English, Chinese, Low Javanese, High Javanese, (Dutch), Indonesian. . A Note on Communication Within and Between Cultures --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691228341; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691228341?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James T. Siegel.

In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such.