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Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia

Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia

Anderson, Benedict R. O'g

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 9793780401
ISBN13: 9789793780405
Publisher: Solstice Pub
Published: Jan 10 2006
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G. Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history: that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian nation is ancient originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language. Bahasa Indonesia, by peoples (especially the Javanese) whose cultures are rooted in medieval times. Analyzing a spectrum of examples from classical poetry to public monuments and cartoons, Anderson deepens our understanding of the interaction between modern and traditional notions of power, the mediation of power by language, and the development of national consciousness.

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