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001 2015000529
003 DLC
005 20151010081545.0
008 150106s2015 ne a b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015000529
020 $a9789004287730 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $z9789004289352 (e-book)
040 $aNIC/DLC$beng$cNIC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aGV1114.75$b.W55 2015
082 00 $a796.81509598$223
100 1 $aWilson, Lee,$d1966-$eauthor.
245 10 $aMartial arts and the body politic in Indonesia /$cby Lee Wilson.
264 1 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c[2015]
300 $axii, 244 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ;$vvolume 299
490 0 $aPower and place in Southeast Asia ;$vvolume 7
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
505 0 $aFrom out of the shadows -- Bodies of knowledge : the pedagogy of pencaksilat -- Blessings, bone setting and the blood of the ancestors -- The management of tradition -- From the mystical to the molecular -- Sovereign bodies and the practicalities of power.
520 $a"Offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPencak silat$xPolitical aspects$zIndonesia.
650 0 $aMartial arts$xAnthropological aspects$zIndonesia.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences)$zIndonesia.