Solo in the New Order e-bog
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In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when tran...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Princeton University Press
Udgivet
13 april 2021
Længde
350 sider
Genrer
Anthropology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780691228341
In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "e;accidents"e; that precede the formulations of culture as such.