Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia
From out of the shadowsBodies of knowledge : the pedagogy of pencaksilat -- 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.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
volume 299 Power and place in Southeast Asia volume 7 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | From out of the shadowsBodies of knowledge : the pedagogy of pencaksilat -- 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. "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 244 pages color illustrations 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789004287730 978-90-04-28773-0 9789004289352 |