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On the Subject of "Java" /

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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Autor principal: Pemberton, John, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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