Performing Power : Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia / Arnout van der Meer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, [New York] : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501758591
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Contents:
Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.
Summary: "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 rituals, dress, consumer patterns, and lifestyles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.

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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 rituals, dress, consumer patterns, and lifestyles"-- Provided by publisher.

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