On the Subject of "Java"

By: John Pemberton

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Paperback | 3 February 2012

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What are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? John Pemberton explores these questions in this far-reaching ethnographic and historical interpretation of cultural discourse in Indonesia since 1965. Pemberton considers in particular how the appearance of order under Soeharto''s repressive New Order regime is an effect of an enigmatic politics founded upon routine appeals to cultural values.

Through a richly textured ethnographic account of events ranging from national elections to weddings, Pemberton simultaneously elucidates and disturbs the contours of the New Order cultural imaginary. He pursues the fugitive signs of circumstances that might resist the powers of New Order rule through unexpected village practices, among graveyard spirits, and within ascetic refuges.

Key to this study is a reexamination of the historical conditions under which a discourse of culture emerges. Providing a close reading of a number of Central Javanese manuscripts from the late eighteenth century on, Pemberton outlines the conditions of knowledge formation in Indonesia since the beginning of Dutch colonial control. As he overturns common assumptions concerning colonial encounters, he discloses the gradual emergence in these texts of a discursive figure inscribed in contrast to the increasingly invasive presence of the Dutch: a figuration of difference that came to be called "Java."

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"I highly recommend Pemberton's study of Java to scholars of ritual for its complex and nuanced treatment of the relationship of ritual and politics."-Journal of Ritual Studies

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
A Note on Manuscripts, Transliteration, and Translation	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Seminal Contradictions	p. 28
Writing Subjects, Writing Authorities """"Java"""" in the Nineteenth Century	p. 68
Prophetic Conclusions	p. 102
Origins Revisited	p. 148
On the Practice of Wedding Ritual Domestication in the New Order	p. 197
Village Cleansing, Local Spirits Traces of Difference	p. 236
The New Order's Other """"Java"""" Sacred Sitings, Otherworldly Communications	p. 269
Afterword	p. 311
Bibliography	p. 319
Index	p. 327
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