Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History Tapa blanda - 2015

Paperback / softback. New. Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO's List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif in heritage initiatives. Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized within Indonesia's heritage infrastructure and in the Netherlands, and echoed in… Leer más

Nus Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. 245 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches.

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2015.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 245pp, index, paperback. Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif in heritage initiatives. Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized within… Leer más

Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback. New. This book sets out to acknowledge Indonesia's past through new interpretations relevant to modern day Indonesia. The book is divided into three parts I - Sites, which includes articles of Borobudur, a Flores village built around megalithic formations and ancestral houses in Alor, II - Bodies, which looks at legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies and III - Stories about the Mambesak movement in Papua, wayang puppetry and a people's history of Blambangan. New Paperback. First edition. 245 pages with an index. Weight 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia