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On the Subject of "Java" (Paperback, New)
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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."
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