Language and Power : : Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia / / Benedict R. O'G. Anderson.
In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history—that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquest...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Power
- I. The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture
- 2. Further Adventures of Charisma
- 3. Old State, New Society: Indonesia's New Order in Comparative Historical Perspective
- Part II. Language
- 4. The Languages of Indonesian Politics
- 5. Cartoons and Monuments: The Evolution of Political Communication under the New Order
- 6. Sembah-Sumpah: The Politics of Language and Javanese Culture
- Part III. Consciousness
- 7. A Time of Darkness and a Time of Light: Transposition in Early Indonesian Nationalist Thought
- 8. Professional Dreams: Reflections on Two Javanese Classics
- Index