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- Barnes, Susana, et al.
(författare)
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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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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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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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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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From Batuparang to Ayudhya. : Bali and the Outside World 1636-1656.
- 1998
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - Leiden : KITLV. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 154:1, s. 55-94
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article contains an in-depth study of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel and its relations with external polities in the mid 17th century. These included Siam, the VOC, Lombok, Makassar, and Mataram on Java. The study is based on unpublished Dutch and Balinese materials, and suggests a degree of interest among the Balinese elite for economic and political contacts, which have hitherto been overlooked by historical research.
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- Hägerdal, Hans, 1960-
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Reply to Dr. Helen Creese.
- 1995
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - Leiden : KITLV. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 151, s. 292-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A rejoinder to a contribution by Dr. Helen Creese, discussing some matters of method and sources with regard to the chronology of the Gelgel kingdom of Bali, Indonesia, in the pre-modern era.
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- Manse, Maarten
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From Headhunting to Head Taxes : Colonial fiscal policy and violence on Seram, ca. 1860-1920
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. - : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0006-2294 .- 2213-4379. ; 177:4, s. 524-558
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates Dutch colonial practices on the Moluccan island of Seram in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Seram’s mountainous interior was the domain of ungoverned, peripatetic Alfurs who engaged in headhunting. For a long time, they were rendered untouched by colonialism and administered through coastal intermediaries. After 1900, renewed imperial-civilizational vigour demanded the direct incorporation and ‘civilization’ of Seram’s stateless spaces. A series of expeditions subjected the Alfurs to registration, categorization, and taxation, which this article argues were seen as pivotal, moralizing tools of colonial social-engineering, used to inscribe subjected people into the state and instil compliant and ‘productive’ behaviour. However, rather than a replacement of indigenous orders with European modernity, colonization produced a hybrid fusion of colonial strategies of domination with indigenous cultural practices of state-evasion. This article demonstrates that colonial governance was a site of interaction, in which colonial developmentalism and modernity were actively negotiated and challenged.
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