Excursies in Celebes
Author: D. Teljeur
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9004454225
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Conflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia
Author: Eva-Lotta E. Hedman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1501719238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of internal refugees uprooted by conflict and violence in Indonesia. Contributors examine internal displacement in the context of militarized conflict and violence in East Timor, Aceh, and Papua, and in other parts of Outer Island Indonesia during the transition from authoritarian rule. The volume also explores official and humanitarian discourses on displacement and their significance for the politics of representation.
Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia
Author: Jennifer L. Gaynor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0877272301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntertidal History in Island Southeast Asia shows the vital part maritime Southeast Asians played in struggles against domination of the seventeenth-century spice trade by local and European rivals. Looking beyond the narrative of competing mercantile empires, it draws on European and Southeast Asian sources to illustrate Sama sea people's alliances and intermarriage with the sultanate of Makassar and the Bugis realm of Boné. Contrasting with later portrayals of the Sama as stateless pirates and sea gypsies, this history of shifting political and interethnic ties among the people of Sulawesi’s littorals and its land-based realms, along with their shared interests on distant coasts, exemplifies how regional maritime dynamics interacted with social and political worlds above the high-water mark.
Colonial 'reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995
Author: Albert Schrauwers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780802083036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSchrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Islamic Narrative and Authority in Southeast Asia
Author: T. Gibson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-06-11
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0230605087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have coexisted in Southeast Asia since the Sixteenth century and influence politics to this day.
Calling Back the Spirit
Author: R. Anderson Sutton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-09-05
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0195354656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalling Back the Spirit describes how, in the face of Indonesian and foreign cultural pressures, the Makassarese people of South Sulawesi are defending their local spirit through music and dance. The book examines the ways performers in this corner of Indonesia seek to empower local music and dance in a changing environment.
Making Blood White
Author: William Cummings
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2002-03-31
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0824863445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of early modern Makassar in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, William Cummings traces the social, cultural, and political significance of the transition from oral to literate culture in one region of Indonesia. He examines "history-making"--the ways in which the past is perceived, interpreted, and used--at a crucial moment in early modern Makassar when conceptions of history are being transformed by the advent of literacy. Central to his argument is the notion that histories are not just records or representations of the past but are themselves forces or agents capable of transforming the worlds in which humans live. Not simply structured by the prevailing social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which they are made, they also shape these contexts. Making Blood White bears in important ways on the historiography of Southeast Asia in general and will be read by students of the region's history and anthropology as well as by those interested in the relationships of history, literacy, and politics in premodern Asia.
Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam
Author: Martin van Bruinessen
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9814414565
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Once celebrated in the Western media as a shining example of a 'liberal' and 'tolerant' Islam, Indonesia since the end of the Soeharto regime (May 1998) has witnessed a variety of developments that bespeak a conservative turn in the country's Muslim politics. In this timely collection of original essays, Martin van Bruinessen, our most distinguished senior Western scholar of Indonesian Islam, and four leading Indonesian Muslim scholars explore and explain these developments. Each chapter examines recent trends from a strategic institutional perch: the Council of Indonesian Muslim scholars, the reformist Muhammadiyah, South Sulawesi's Committee for the Implementation of Islamic Shari'a, and radical Islamism in Solo. With van Bruinessen's brilliantly synthetic introduction and conclusion, these essays shed a bright light on what Indonesian Muslim politics was and where it seems to be going. The analysis is complex and by no means uniformly dire. For readers interested in Indonesian Muslim politics, and for analysts interested in the dialectical interplay of progressive and conservative Islam, this book is fascinating and essential reading." -Robert Hefner, Director Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9004288058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelistic political structures, periodic tectonic and climatic disasters, ethnic occupational specializations, long cycles of economic globalization and deglobalization. Their contributions range across many centuries: from the Austronesian expansion to the Aceh tsunami, and from the Sanskrit cosmopolis to the Asian financial crisis. The book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Peter Boomgaard, a scholar whose work has embodied the Braudelian spirit in Southeast Asian historiography. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.
Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia
Author: Gerhard Gerold
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 3662082373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoutheast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. It is characterized by a high degree of biodiversity and contains a large variety of endemic species. Moreover, these forests provide a number of important and sin gular ecosystem services, like erosion protection and provision of high quality wa ter, which cannot be replaced by alternative ecosystems. However, various forms of encroachment, mostly those made by human interventions, seriously threaten the continuance of rainforests in this area. There is ample evidence that the rainforest resources, apart from large scale commercial logging, are exposed to danger particularly from its margin areas. These areas, which are characterized by intensive man-nature interaction, have been identified as extremely fragile systems. The dynamic equilibrium that bal ances human needs and interventions on the one hand, and natural regeneration capacity on the other, is at stake. The decrease of rainforest resources is, to a sub stantial degree, connected with the destabilization of these systems. Accordingly, the search for measures and processes, which prevent destabilization and promote stability is regarded as imperative. This refers to both the human and the natural part of the forest margin ecosystem.
