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Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History
Susan Legene (Ed.)
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Description for Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History
Paperback. Editor(s): Legene, Susan; Purwanto, Bambang; Schulte Nordholt, Henk. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971698577
SKU
V9789971698577
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About Susan Legene (Ed.)
Susan Legene is professor of Political History and Head of the Department of Art and culture, History, Antiquity at the Faculty of Humanities, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Bambang Purwanto is Professor of History at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Henk Schulte Nordholt is Head of Research at the Royal Netherlands Institute of ... Read more
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