The politics of heritage in Indonesia : a cultural history /

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 knowledg...

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Main Authors: Bloembergen, Marieke, 1967- (Author), Eickhoff, Martijn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Asian connections (Series)
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Table of 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.