Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff

The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia

A Cultural History

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Produktbeschreibung

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.

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Produktdetails

• Asian Connections
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781108713061
• ISBN-10: 1108713068
• Artikelnr.: 64370043

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.