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- Barnes, Susana, et al.
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An East Timorese Domain Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives
- 2017
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 173:2-3, s. 325-355
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The East Timorese kingdom Luca is described as the hegemon of the eastern parts of Timor in some nineteenth-century works. This is gainsaid by other data, which point to the existence of a multitude of petty kingdoms. This article scrutinizes Luca's claim to power from a number of angles, utilizing European records and contemporary anthropological fieldwork. First, we analyse the claims of the centre as reflected in colonial and indigenous narratives. Second, we investigate narratives from the 'periphery', that is, the minor adjacent domains of Vessoro and Babulo. Third, we offer a comprehensive discussion of Luca's role from a wider geographical perspective. In this way we produce a 'general account' that situates the symbolic and historical significance of Luca within the Timorese understanding of time, ritual, and power.
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- Foxeus, Niklas, 1967-
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Mimicking the State in Burma/Myanmar : Royal, Nationalist and Militant Ideology in a New Buddhist Movement
- 2016
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 172:2-3, s. 197-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the early post-independence period in Burma, a large number of hierarchical, initiatory, and secretive esoteric congregations were founded by charismatic leaders in urban areas. These attracted many devotees, including representatives of the state. The relationship between the state and the esoteric congregations was tense, especially during the rule of the military governments (1962–2011), and the state sought to suppress the congregations in the early 1980s.In this article, one esoteric congregation—the ariyā-weizzā organization—is taken as an example of these congregations. First, the article demonstrates how the members of this congregation view themselves as performing the state, and shows what kind of power they perceive themselves to exercise. Second, in socio-political terms, the article seeks to explain why tensions emerged between the state and the esoteric congregations, and it demonstrates how these congregations have contributed to performing the state.
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- Foxeus, Niklas
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Performing the Nation in Myanmar : Buddhist Nationalist Rituals and Boundary-Making
- 2022
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 178:2-3, s. 272-305
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2012, Buddhist nationalist movements in Myanmar started to emerge, disseminating a Buddhist nationalist discourse that aimed to protectively demarcate their nation from the perceived threat posed by Muslims. In sermons, monks exhorted their audiences to make nationalist vows to protect their nation, country, and Buddhism. The aim of this article is to investigate some ritual, discursive, and performative aspects of Buddhist nationalist sermons, and the social dynamics they entailed. The article first examines and analyses three recurrent discursive complexes of the Buddhist nationalist sermons delivered in 2013–2015; it will also look at how the monks drew on their social power and on discursive and performative power to create a boundary around their Buddhist nation and to mobilize Buddhists to protect it, thereby performing their nation. Second, the article examines two ways in which sermons that aimed to protect the Buddha’s dispensation (collectivistic religion) contributed to creating social cohesion and community.
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- Habibi, Zaki
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Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia. Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture, by Leonie Schmidt
- 2018
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Ingår i: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 174:4, s. 538-541
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Recension (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia, Leonie Schmidt provides a thorough analysis of contemporary Islamic-themed popular and visual cultures, mainly in Indonesia. This book is an essential read for those who wish to understand multiple modernities unfolding in post-1998 Indonesia (the Reformasi era). By using the term Islamic, she refers to any ‘cultural practices that are considered bernafaskan Islam (“to breath Islam”), which means that these cultural forms are inspired by Islam or that they connote Islam thematically’ (p. 5). This book focuses on the intersection between modernity, Islam, identity, and popular and visual cultures in contemporary Indonesia.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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A Prince in a Republic. The Life of Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX of Yogyakarta, written by John Monfries
- 2015
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - Leiden : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 171:4, s. 590-592
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The review scrutinizes John Monfries's biography of the Javanese prince and politician Hamengku Buwono IX, who was a hero of the Indonesian Revolution and later served as vice president of Indonesia. The book is lauded for its meticulous research and contextualization of the sultan, but criticized for providing a scanty analysis of the sultan as a person.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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Bali in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. : Suggestions for a Chronology of the Gelgel Period.
- 1995
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - Leiden : KITLV. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 151:1, s. 101-124
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article studies the sources for the Gelgel kingdom ob Bali, Indonesia, which is the subject of much uncertainty and controversy. The author collates Iberian and Dutch archival sources with categories of Balinese historiography, and arrives at conclusions at variance with a previous study by Dr. Helen Creese.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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Britain and Sihanouk's Cambodia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 172:1, s. 152-153
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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Creating Timorese futures
- 2019
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : KITLV Press. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 175:4, s. 567-571
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Review essay that discusses two volumes concerned with hopes and images of the future on Timor island in the contemporary era. These works are Judith H. Bovensiepen (ed.), The Promise of Prosperity: Visions of the Future in Timor-Leste. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2018; and Andrey Damaledo, Divided Loyalties: Displacement, Belonging and Citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor. Acton: Australian National University Press, 2018.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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Expansion in the shadow of the Company : Concurrent representations of Karangasem
- 2016
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 172:2/3, s. 279-309
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of this article is the political expansion of Karangasem, one of the microstates of Bali, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Karangasem leadership was able to expand into Lombok and large parts of northern and central Bali, while generally avoiding confrontation with the Dutch East India Company. They encountered a range of ethnic groups and endeavoured to play out the Dutch and the British interests against each other. In spite of its regional importance, prior to 1800 Karangasem is poorly documented. The article explores ways of reading different categories of European and indigenous sources against each other. Although fragmentary, they yield information about strategic concerns, economic underpinnings of expansion, ethnicity, and cultural and ritual issues. A combination of internal and external factors, including Dutch policies in the East Indies, enabled Karangasem to pursue a successful political expansion in the shadow of the Company.
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