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Author Errington, Shelly, 1944-

Title Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages).
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Contents Cover; Contents; Part I.A Geography of Signs ; Part II. Centrifugal Tendencies ; Part III. Centripetal Structures ; Conclusions; Illustrations Following Page.
Summary The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the ""head of state"" but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons and houses were and are viewed as centered spaces (locations) where spiritual potency can gather. Shelly Errington explores the politics of constituting and maintaining such centered socio-political spaces in a former Indic State called Luwu, which lies in South Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. The meaning of political life and the ways its cultural forms were and are sustained depend on locally construed ideas of ""power"" or spiritual potency.
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Subject Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Luwu.
Ethnology.
Indonesia -- Luwu.
Spatial behavior -- Indonesia -- Luwu.
Spatial behavior.
Luwu (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Errington, Shelly. Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400860081 (electronic book)
1400860083 (electronic book)