UID:
almahu_9949703368402882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) :
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9789004289352
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; v. 299
Content:
In Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia Lee Wilson offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- From Out of the Shadows -- Bodies of Knowledge: The Pedagogy of Pencak Silat -- Blessings, Bone Setting and the Blood of the Ancestors -- The Management of Tradition -- From the Mystical to the Molecular -- Sovereign Bodies and the Practicalities of Power -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Wilson, Lee, 1966- author. Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia ISBN 9789004287730
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
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Sports Science
Keywords:
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