Performing Contemporary Indonesia

Celebrating Identity, Constructing Community
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28241-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 297, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Southeast Asia Mediated

Performance events have long had a central place in Indonesian societies in displaying power, affirming social relations, celebrating shared values, and at times conveying potent political critique. How have they responded to the momentous social and political changes of recent years - the dismantling of the centralised, authoritarian Suharto regime and its replacement with a more open, regionally-focused political system, the rapid expansion of global cultural influence?
Investigations of diverse performance genres from different regions illustrate the way general socio-political processes play out locally, and how particular groups are responding. Exploring performed understandings of identity and community, such studies expand knowledge of a complex, contested period of change in Indonesia and the workings of contemporary performance in giving it expression.
With contributions by Chua Beng Huat, Alexandra Crosby, Barbara Hatley, Ariel Heryanto, Brett Hough, Rachmah Ida, Reza Idria, Edwin Jurriens, Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti, Neneng Yanti K Lahpan, Ugoran Prasad, Wawan Sofwan, Aline Scott-Maxwell, Fridus Steijlen, Alia Swastika, Denise Varney.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hatley, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Hatley, Ph.D. (1985), University of Sydney, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage: Contesting Culture, Embracing Change (NUS Press, 2008) and many articles on Indonesian theatre, literature and gender studies.

Brett Hough, Ph.D. (2000), Monash University, lectured in Anthropology and Indonesian Studies at Monash University until the end of 2011. He is author of "'Ancestral Shades': The Arti Foundation and the Practice of Pelestarian in Contemporary Bali", Asian Theatre Journal 28(1), Spring 2011.