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Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)

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Description for Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture) Paperback. Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.

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 conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language, Bahasa Indonesia, by peoples (especially the Javanese) whose cultures are rooted in medieval times. Analyzing a spectrum of examples from classical poetry to public monuments and cartoons, Anderson deepens our understanding of the interaction between modern and traditional notions of power, the meditation of power by language, and ... Read more

This volume brings together eight of Anderson's most influential essays written over the past two decades. Most of the essays address aspects of Javanese political culture—from the early nineteenth century, when the Javanese did not yet have words for politics, colonialism, society, or class, through the early nationalism of the 1900s, to the era of independence after World War II, when deep internal tensions exploded into large-scale massacres. In the first group of essays Anderson considers how power was imagined in traditional Javanese society, and how these imaginings shaped Indonesia's modern politics. Other essays focus on the significance of the incongruences between the egalitarian, ironizing national language through which modern Indonesia has been imagined and the powerful influence of the hierarchical, authoritarian Javanese official culture. Finally, two essays on consciousness illuminate the crucial eras before and after the rise of Indonesia's nationalist movement. One reflects on Javanese intellectuals' phantasmagoric efforts to keep imagining "Java" as the island was overrun by colonial capitalism and absorbed into the huge, heterogeneous Netherlands East Indies; the second traces the transition from old culture to new nation through the autobiography of an eminent Javanese first-generation nationalist politician.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801497582
SKU
V9780801497582
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About Benedict R. O´g. Anderson
Benedict R. O'G. Anderson is the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Government, and Asian Studies at Cornell University. His works include Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Violence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia, and The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World.

Reviews for Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
"A wonderful collection, rich in ideas and interpretations. In my reading, the central theme of this book is the crisis in Javanese culture which began in the seventeenth century and the attempts of successive generations of Javanese-Indonesians to deal with the crisis."
R. William Liddle "These writings, largely unknown the wide audience Anderson now commands, offer specialists and nonspecialists ... Read more

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