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Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949)
from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen
contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the
revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors
explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians,
fighters, farmers and officials experienced and shaped the often
volatile period between 1945 and 1950. The book focuses on
different ideas of independence, survival strategies, mobilization,
minorities, contestation of authority and the use of force against
the backdrop of Indonesian and Dutch authorities' efforts to gain
or maintain control. Bringing together two national
historiographical traditions which have long remained largely
separate, Revolutionary Worlds is the result of a collaboration
between the Indonesian research project Proklamasi Kemerdekaan,
Revolusi dan Perang di Indonesia ('Proclamation of Independence,
Revolution and War in Indonesia', Universitas Gadjah Mada,
Yogyakarta) and the Dutch research group of the Regional Studies
project, under the umbrella of the research programme Independence,
Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950. The
authors of this book - Taufik Ahmad, Galuh Ambar Sasi, Maarten van
der Bent, Martijn Eickhoff, Farabi Fakih, Roel Frakking, Apriani
Harahap, Anne-Lot Hoek, Sarkawi B. Husain, Julianto Ibrahim, Gerry
van Klinken, Erniwati Nur, Mawardi Umar, Anne van der Veer, Abdul
Wahid, Tri Wahyuning M. Irsyam, and Muhammad Yuanda Zara - work
with various universities and research institutes in Indonesia and
the Netherlands.
Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between
history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial
Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central
Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and
ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical
anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The
Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the
inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO's List of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by
the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes.
Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif
in heritage initiatives. Contemporary heritage formation in
Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and
culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized
within Indonesia's heritage infrastructure and in the Netherlands,
and echoed in museums and exhibitions throughout the world. The
authors in this volume acknowledge colonial legacies but argue
against a colonial determinism, considering instead how
contemporary heritage initiatives can lead to new interpretations
of the past.
In Spectacular Accumulation, Morgan Pitelka investigates the
significance of material culture and sociability in late
sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and
afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the
Tokugawa shogunate. The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties
between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the
role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern
Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and
eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the
relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of
meibutsu, or ""famous objects,"" exchanging hostages, collecting
heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy
Pitelka calls """"spectacular accumulation,"""" which profoundly
affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity.
Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to
contextualize the acquisition of """"art"""" within a larger
complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority,
demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and
advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between
cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed
cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the
landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it. Employing
a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence,
including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka
links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the
increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural
practices. Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea
utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military
hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military
rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified
human bodies.
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