Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

Published by Cornell University Press 1991

Language and Power

Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia

Benedict R. O'G. Anderson

In the series The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720604

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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...

Author / Editor information

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

J. Joseph Errington:

These writings, largely unknown the wide audience Anderson now commands, offer specialists and nonspecialists alike a fascinating perspective on Indonesian culture, as well as an intellectual chronology of a major Southeast Asianist and social theorist.

R. William Liddle:

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Power
I. The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Further Adventures of Charisma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
3. Old State, New Society: Indonesia's New Order in Comparative Historical Perspective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Part II. Language
4. The Languages of Indonesian Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
5. Cartoons and Monuments: The Evolution of Political Communication under the New Order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
6. Sembah-Sumpah: The Politics of Language and Javanese Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part III. Consciousness
7. A Time of Darkness and a Time of Light: Transposition in Early Indonesian Nationalist Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
8. Professional Dreams: Reflections on Two Javanese Classics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Asian Studies; Cultural Studies; Anthropology

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Published: August 6, 2018
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