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

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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Politics and culture > Indonesia > Java > History > 19th century.
Politics and culture > Indonesia > Java > History > 20th century.
Group identity > Indonesia > Java > History > 19th century.
Group identity > Indonesia > Java > History > 20th century.
Indonesia > Politics and government > 1798-1942.
Java (Indonesia) > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Java (Indonesia) > Social life and customs > 20th century.

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