Marieke Bloembergen

Politics of Heritage in Indonesia (eBook, ePUB)

A Cultural History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional 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 post-colonial 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108585590
• Artikelnr.: 62731847

Autorenporträt

Marieke Bloembergen is senior researcher at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), and Professor in Archival and Postcolonial Studies at Universiteit Leiden. She has published on the politics and mobility of knowledge in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, through the lens of policing and violence, material culture, and heritage practices within inter-Asian and transnational contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: towards a mobile history of heritage formation in Asia; 1. Site interventions
knowledge networks
and changing loyalties on Java
1800-1850s; 2. Exchange
protection
and the social life of Java's antiquities
1860s-1910s; 3. Great sacred Majapahit: biographies of a Javanese site in the nineteenth century; 4. Greater Majapahit: the makings of a proto-Indonesian site across decolonisation
1900s-1950s; 5. The prehistoric cultures and historic past of South-Sumatra on the move; 6. Resurrecting Siva
expanding local pasts: centralisation and the forces of imagination across war and regime changes
1920s-1950s; 7. 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.