Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City - Tapa blanda

Siegel, James T.

 
9780691000855: Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City
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ISBN 10: 0691000859 ISBN 13: 9780691000855
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1993

Sinopsis

In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto’s New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such.

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Acerca del autor

James T. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Rope of God (California) and Shadow and Sound: The Historical Thought of a Sumatran Kingdom (Chicago).

De la contraportada

"Few ethnographies can match Solo in the New Order, inspired as it is by Siegel's crafted obsession with the limits of categories of thought--both Western and Javanese. His eye for incongruent particularities and odd juxtapositions allows him to engage critically the relationship between the "uncanny' and attempts to domesticate its manifestations--through translation practices, historical revisionism, vernacular concepts of the senses, discourses on death and gambling, among others--and makes his work valuable to anyone interested not only in theorizing cultural studies but in carrying out its practical implications and radical possibilities as well."--Vincente Rafael, University of California, San Diego

"Few books succeed as well as this one in addressing the most urgent of Western intellectual concerns while remaining entirely within the purview of a non-Western social and cultural field."--Sam Weber, University of California, Los Angeles

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691000859
ISBN 13 
9780691000855
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
348
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9780691094274: Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City

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ISBN 10:  0691094276 ISBN 13:  9780691094274
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1986
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