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Author Wilson, Lee, 1966- author.

Title Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia / by Lee Wilson.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2015]
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Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 299
Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 7
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; volume 299.
Power and place in Southeast Asia ; volume 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Pencak silat -- Political aspects -- Indonesia.
Pencak silat.
Indonesia.
Martial arts -- Anthropological aspects -- Indonesia.
Martial arts -- Anthropological aspects.
Power (Social sciences) -- Indonesia.
Power (Social sciences)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wilson, Lee, 1966- Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia 9789004287730 (DLC) 2015000529 (OCoLC)900159070
ISBN 9789004289352 (electronic book)
9004289356 (electronic book)
9789004287730
9004287736
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004289352

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