On the Subject of "Java" /

On the Subject of "Java" / / John Pemberton.

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 appea...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Pemberton, John,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1994
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 2 maps, 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Manuscripts, Transliteration, and Translation
  • Introduction
  • 1. Seminal Contradictions: Founding the Palace of Surakarta
  • 2. Writing Subjects, Writing Authorities: "Java" in the Nineteenth Century
  • 3. Prophetic Conclusions: Surakarta in Late Colonial Times
  • 4. Origins Revisited: A Circuitous Return to the Present
  • 5. On the Practice of Wedding: Ritual Domestication in the New Order
  • 6. Village Cleansing, Local Spirits: Traces of Difference
  • 7. The New Order's Other "Java": Sacred Sitings, Otherworldly Communications
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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