ISBN:
9789004289352
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 244 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 299
Series Statement:
Power and place in Southeast Asia volume 7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wilson, Lee, - 1966- Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia
Keywords:
Pencak silat Political aspects
;
Martial arts Anthropological aspects
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Electronic books
;
Nationalismus
;
Macht
;
Kampfsport
;
Indonesien
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- From Out of the Shadows -- Bodies of Knowledge: The Pedagogy of Pencak Silat -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia Lee Wilson 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
