The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History

ISBN-13: 9781108713061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 339 str.

Martijn Eickhoff

Opis

Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.

Recenzje

'Bloembergen and Eickhoff demonstrate the Dutch roots of modern Indonesian conceptualisations of heritage, and how Indonesian practices stretch across Southeast Asia to India and beyond. This is a highly original and provocative contribution to global understandings of tradition and its ownership.' Adrian Vickers, University of Sydney

Spis treści

Introduction: towards a mobile history of heritage formation in Asia; 1. Site interventions, knowledge networks, and changing loyalties on Java, 1800–1850s; 2. Exchange, protection, and the social life of Java's antiquities, 1860s–1910s; 3. Great sacred Majapahit: biographies of a Javanese site in the nineteenth century; 4. Greater Majapahit: the makings of a proto-Indonesian site across decolonisation, 1900s–1950s; 5. The prehistoric cultures and historic past of South-Sumatra on the move; 6. Resurrecting Siva, expanding local pasts: centralisation and the forces of imagination across war and regime changes, 1920s–1950s; 7. Fragility, losing, and anxiety over loss: difficult pasts in wider Asian and global contexts; Epilogue: heritage sites, difficult histories, and 'hidden forces' in postcolonial Indonesia.