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Author Meer, Arnout van der, 1980- author.

Title Performing power : cultural hegemony, identity, and resistance in colonial Indonesia / Arnout van der Meer.

Publication Info. Ithaca, [New York] : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Setting the Stage : The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century -- "Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening" : The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901-1913 -- Disrupting the Colonial Performance : The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening -- Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies : From Ethnic Stereotype to National Dress -- East is East and West is West : Forging Modern Identities -- Staging Colonial Modernity : Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes.
Summary "Discusses how colonial dominance in Indonesia, and in particular on Java, was legitimized and maintained as well as negotiated and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between colonizer and colonized, for instance through changes in language, etiquette, deference rituals, dress, consumer patterns, and lifestyles"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Politics and culture -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 19th century.
Politics and culture.
Indonesia -- Java.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Politics and culture -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Group identity -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 19th century.
Group identity.
Group identity -- Indonesia -- Java -- History -- 20th century.
Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 1798-1942.
Indonesia.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1798-1942
Subject Java (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Java (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1798-1999
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Meer, Arnout van der, 1980- Performing power Ithaca, [New York] : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. 9781501758577 (DLC) 2020046264
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