Research Catalog

Title

The politics of heritage in Indonesia : a cultural history / Marieke Bloembergen, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, and Leiden University, Martijn Eickhoff, NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam.

Author

Bloembergen, Marieke, 1967-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eickhoff, Martijn

Description

xv, 323 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology and heritage formation in Asia, at both local and transregional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and postcolonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as the Buddhist statues from Borobudur-temple, that were gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The ways in which the meaning of these objects transformed, as they moved away to other sites, reveal their role in parallel processes of heritage formation outside Indonesia. Calling attention to the power of the material remains of the past, Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff explore questions of knowledge production, the relationship between heritage and violence and the role of sites and objects in the creation of national histories."--

Series Statement

Asian connections

Uniform Title

Asian connections (Series)

Subject

• Historic sites > Indonesia
• Cultural property > Indonesia
• Decolonization > Indonesia
• Cultural property
• Historic sites
• Historiography
• History in popular culture
• Politics and culture
• Indonesia > Antiquities
• Indonesia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Towards a Mobile History of Heritage Formation in Asia Formation in Asia -- Site Interventions, Knowledge Networks,and Changing Loyalties on Java, 1800-1850s -- Exchange, Protection, and the Social Life of Java's Antiquities, 1860s-1910s -- Great Sacred Majapahit:Biographies of a Javanese Javanese Site in the Nineteenth Site in the Nineteenth Century Century -- Greater Majapahit: The Makings of a Indonesian Site Across Decolonisation, 1900s-1950s -- The Prehistoric Cultures and Historic Past of South-Sumatra on the Move -- Resurrecting Siva, Expanding Local Pasts: Central : Centralisation and the Forces of Imagination Across War and Regime Changes, 1920s-1950s -- Fragility, Losing, and Anxiety Over Loss: Difficult Pasts in Wider Asian and Global Contexts -- Epilogue: Heritage Sites, Difficult Histories, and 'Hidden Forces' in Postcolonial Indonesia.

Call Number

JFE 21-23

ISBN

• 9781108499026
• 1108499023
• 9781108614757 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019043848
• 40029813297

OCLC

1127083193

Author

Bloembergen, Marieke, 1967- author.

Title

The politics of heritage in Indonesia : a cultural history / Marieke Bloembergen, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, and Leiden University, Martijn Eickhoff, NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Type of Content

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Asian connections

Asian connections (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Eickhoff, Martijn, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Bloembergen, Marieke, 1967- The politics of heritage in Indonesia New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. 9781108614757 (DLC) 2019043849

Other Standard Identifier

40029813297

Research Call Number

JFE 21-23