Performing power : cultural hegemony, identity, and resistance in colonial Indonesia /

Discusses how colonial dominance in Indonesia, and in particular on Java, was legitimized and maintained as well as negotiated and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between colonizer and colonized, for instance through changes in language, etiquette, deference ri...

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Main Author: Meer, Arnout van der, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Summary:Discusses how colonial dominance in Indonesia, and in particular on Java, was legitimized and maintained as well as negotiated and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between colonizer and colonized, for instance through changes in language, etiquette, deference rituals, dress, consumer patterns and lifestyles.
Physical Description:xviii, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501758577
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