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"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"--

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
244

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Subjects

Pencak silat, Martial arts, Power (Social sciences)

Places

Indonesia

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Table of Contents

From 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 299, Power and place in Southeast Asia -- volume 7

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.81509598
Library of Congress
GV1114.75 .W55 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 244 pages
Number of pages
244

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30390741M
ISBN 13
9789004287730, 9789004289352
LCCN
2015000529

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