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Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia
- Title
- Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia / by Lee Wilson.
- Author
- Wilson, Lee, 1966-
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 244 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation"--
- Series Statement
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 299
- Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 7
- Uniform Title
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 299.
- Power and place in Southeast Asia ; v. 7.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
- Contents
- From out of the shadows -- Bodies of knowledge : the pedagogy of pencaksilat -- Blessings, bone setting and the blood of the ancestors -- The management of tradition -- From the mystical to the molecular -- Sovereign bodies and the practicalities of power.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4338
- ISBN
- 9789004287730
- 9004287736
- 9789004289352 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015000529
- 40025046243
- OCLC
- 900159070
- Author
- Wilson, Lee, 1966- author.
- Title
- Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia / by Lee Wilson.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 299Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 7Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 299.Power and place in Southeast Asia ; v. 7.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40025046243
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4338