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From a scholarly point of view this is a correct assessment, but there is more. Since the second half of the 1970s, the Ministry of Education and Culture, through its project for the inventarization and documentation of regional culture has published a mass of descriptons of local customs, music, ga...

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Published in:Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde land- en volkenkunde, 1995, Vol.151 (2), p.294
Main Authors: Colombijn, Freek, Furukawa, Hisao, C van Dijk, Virginia Matheson Hooker, Fernando, M R, Frans van Baardewijk, Bernice D de Jong Boers, Vel, Jacqueline, Klokke, Marijke J, Kieven, Lydia, Sedyawati, Edi, Koster, Gijs
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
American Indians
Coasts
Colonialism
Culture
Floods
Javanese
Land use
Racism
Spanish language
Wetlands
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Summary:From a scholarly point of view this is a correct assessment, but there is more. Since the second half of the 1970s, the Ministry of Education and Culture, through its project for the inventarization and documentation of regional culture has published a mass of descriptons of local customs, music, games, folk-tales, and so forth. [...]it also contains a chapter on 308 Book Reviews the envoys to whom the letter was entrusted and a chapter on its ceremonial delivery and reading out aloud to its audience. [...]Marijke J. Klokke, in 'The so-called portrait statues in East Javanese art', reexamines a controversial group of sculptures and concludes that they represent kings and queens deified after death. [...]they opt for a 'historical anthropology' that in taking colonialism as culture and culture as colonial, unmasks their representations of others as irrational, constructed and contingent, a bricolage of strategies and tactics rather than the object of dispassionate social engineering. [...]one sees, for example, that Spanish projects of conquest by Christian conversion and confession are subverted by the necessity to translate and adopt an indigenous Philippine language (Rafael, in Dirks); that a rational process of recruiting labour for capitalist rubber production is subverted by the exchange of violence, rumours and fears between South American Indians and rubber buyers (Taussig, in Dirks); or that the racist confidence of some colonizers is offset by the uncertainties and fears of others (Thomas, Ch. 5).
ISSN:0006-2294
2213-4379