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On the Subject of Java

On the Subject of Java

On the Subject of Java
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by John Pemberton

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Cornell University Press , pp. 320 . Hardback. New.
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  • Title On the Subject of Java
  • Author John Pemberton
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press , Ithaca, NY
  • Publication date pp. 320
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6373041748
  • ISBN 9780801426728 / 0801426723
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1610
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94-25827
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.82
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

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 appearance of order under Soeharto's repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values.

Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imaginary. He pursues the fugitive signs of circumstances that might resist the powers of New Order rule through unexpected village practices, among graveyard spirits, and within ascetic refuges.

Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges. Providing a close reading of a number of Central Javanese manuscripts from the late eighteenth century on, Pemberton outlines the conditions of knowledge formation in Indonesia since the beginning of Dutch colonial control. As he overturns common assumptions concerning colonial encounters, he discloses the gradual emergence in these texts of a discursive figure inscribed in contrast to the increasingly invasive presence of the Dutch: a figuration of difference that came to be called "Java."

About the author

John Pemberton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.

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