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Book The Manggaraians

Download or read book The Manggaraians written by Maribeth Erb and published by Cavendish Square Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manggarian culture is presently enjoying a renaissance in response to the escalating interest on the part of outsiders who visit their regency in increasing numbers every year. The Manggarian is the definitive tribute to the turbulent and dynamic history of the Manggaraian culture.

Book Sites  Bodies and Stories

Download or read book Sites Bodies and Stories written by Susan Legêne and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif in heritage initiatives. Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized within Indonesia's heritage infrastructure and in the Netherlands, and echoed in museums and exhibitions throughout the world. The authors in this volume acknowledge colonial legacies but argue against a colonial determinism, considering instead how contemporary heritage initiatives can lead to new interpretations of the past.

Book Regionalism in Post Suharto Indonesia

Download or read book Regionalism in Post Suharto Indonesia written by Maribeth Erb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues connected with decentralization and regional autonomy in Indonesia, including particular autonomy movements, the attempts by forces at the centre to resist decentralization, and the impact of decentralization.

Book The Mission of Development

Download or read book The Mission of Development written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition. The volume takes up an increasingly prominent strand in contemporary research that reverses the prior occlusion of the entanglements between religion and development. It breaks new ground through its analysis of the techno-politics of both development and mission, and by focusing on the importance of engagements and encounters in the field in Asia.

Book ICHELAC 2021

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sebastianus Menggo
  • Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
  • Release : 2021-11-15
  • ISBN : 1631903241
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book ICHELAC 2021 written by Sebastianus Menggo and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Humanities, Education, Language and Culture (ICHELAC 2021). Where held on 30th – 31st July 2021 in Ruteng, Flores, Indonesia. This conference was organized by Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences of the Universitas Katolik Indonesia Santu Paulus Ruteng. The papers in this conference were collected in a proceedings book entitled: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Humanities, Education, Language and Culture (ICHELAC 2021). The presentation of such a multi-discipline conference provides a lot of exciting insights and new understanding on recent issues in terms of Humanities, Education, Language, and Culture. Referring to the argument, this conference would serve as a valuable reference for future relevant research activities. The committee acknowledges that the successful of this conference are closely intertwined by the contributions from various stakeholders. As being such, we would like to express our heartfelt appreciation to the keynote speakers, invited speakers, paper presenters, and participants for their enthusiastic support in joining the First International Conference on Humanities, Education, Language, and Culture. We are convinced that the contents of the study from various papers are not only encouraged productive discussion among presenters and participants but also motivate further research in the relevant subject. We appreciate for your enthusiasm to attend our conference and share your knowledge and experience. Your input was important in ensuring the success of our conference. Finally, we hope that this conference serves as a forum for learning in building togetherness and academic networks. Therefore, we expect to see you all at the next ICHELAC.

Book Asia on Tour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Winter
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2008-09-24
  • ISBN : 1134044356
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Asia on Tour written by Tim Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling millions of Asians to travel as tourists.

Book The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics

Download or read book The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics written by Jamie Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important resource provides detailed coverage of the growing significance of adat in Indonesian politics. It identifies its origins, the historical factors that have conditioned it and the reasons behind its recent blossoming.

Book Leisure and Death

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  • Author : Adam Kaul
  • Publisher : University Press of Colorado
  • Release : 2018-05-28
  • ISBN : 1607327295
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Leisure and Death written by Adam Kaul and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, Leisure and Death delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology. These nuanced and well-developed ethnographic case studies deal with different and distinct examples of the intertwining of leisure and death. They challenge established conceptions of leisure and rethink the associations attached to the prospect of death. Chapters testify to encounters with death on a personal and scholarly level, exploring, for example, the Cliffs of Moher as not only one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland but one of the most well-known suicide destinations as well, and the estimated 30 million active posthumous Facebook profiles being repurposed through proxy users and transformed by continued engagement with the living. From the respectful to the fascinated, from the macabre to the morbid, contributors consider how people deliberately, or unexpectedly, negotiate the borderlands of the living. An engaging, timely book that explores how spaces of death can be transformed into spaces of leisure, Leisure and Death makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning interdisciplinary literature on leisure studies and dark tourism. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and laypeople interested in tourism studies, death studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, anthropology, sociology, and marketing. Contributors: Kathleen M. Adams, Michael Arnold, Jane Desmond, Keith Egan, Maribeth Erb, James Fernandez, Martin Gibbs, Rachel Horner-Brackett, Shingo Iitaka, Tamara Kohn, Patrick Laviolette, Ruth McManus, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen, Stravoula Pipyrou, Hannah Rumble, Cyril Schafer

Book Vietnamese Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands

Download or read book Vietnamese Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands written by Yuk Wah Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing economies of both countries and drawn many from the interior provinces to the borderland for new economic adventures. This book examines Chinese-Vietnamese relationships at the borderland through every day cross-border interaction in trade and tourism activities. It looks into the historical underlining of bilateral relations of the two countries which often shape people’s perceptions of the ‘other’ and interpretation of intentions of acts in their daily interaction. Albeit Chinese and Vietnamese have lived side by side for centuries, their interaction in the space of trade and modern tourism in post-war and post-reform China and Vietnam is something novel to both people. The book provides a ‘bottom-up’ approach to examine the localized experiences of inter-state relations. It illustrates the changes the vibrant economic process has brought to the borderland communities, and how the revived contacts and interaction have generated a contested space for examining Vietnamese-Chinese relationships and demonstrating trans-border cultural politics. A novel study of the strategic development of the borderland within the new political economy at China-Southeast Asia border region, this book is of interest to academics in the field of Anthropology, Border Studies, Social and Cultural Studies and Asian Studies.

Book Anthropos

Download or read book Anthropos written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages

Download or read book Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages written by Victoria Rau and published by Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a National Foreign Language Resource Center conference volume and special issue of Language Documentation and Conservation, an open-access journal (http: //nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/).

Book Contesting Development

Download or read book Contesting Development written by Patrick Barron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking book grapples with an established reality: well-intentioned international development programs often generate local conflict, some of which escalates to violence. To understand how such conflicts can be managed peacefully, the authors have undertaken a comprehensive mixed-methods analysis of one of the world's largest participatory development projects, the highly successful Kecamatan Development Program (KDP), which was launched by the World Bank and the Indonesian government in the late 1990s and now operates in every district across Indonesia. --

Book Oceania

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 668 pages

Download or read book Oceania written by Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the sections "Reviews" and "Bibliographical notes."

Book Deepening Democracy in Indonesia

Download or read book Deepening Democracy in Indonesia written by Maribeth Erb and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of long-reigning President Soeharto, in 1998, Indonesia has been in an era of transition, away from an authoritarian regime, and on a quest for democracy. This quest started with decentralization laws implemented in 2001, which gave greater autonomy to the regions, and continued with the direct elections for the national and local legislatures and the President in 2004. The latest development in this democratization process is the implementation of a system for the direct election of regional leaders, which began in 2005; the first round of elections across the nation for all governors, mayors and district heads was completed in 2008. Authors of the chapters in this volume, the result of a workshop in Singapore in 2006, present data from across the archipelago for these first direct elections for local leaders and give their assessment as to how far these elections have contributed to a deepening democracy.

Book Art as Politics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen M. Adams
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-08-31
  • ISBN : 0824861485
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Art as Politics written by Kathleen M. Adams and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art as Politics explores the intersection of art, identity politics, and tourism in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Based on long-term ethnographic research from the 1980s to the present, the book offers a nuanced portrayal of the Sa’dan Toraja, a predominantly Christian minority group in the world’s most populous Muslim country. Celebrated in anthropological and tourism literatures for their spectacular traditional houses, sculpted effigies of the dead, and pageantry-filled funeral rituals, the Toraja have entered an era of accelerated engagement with the global economy marked by on-going struggles over identity, religion, and social relations. In her engaging account, Kathleen Adams chronicles how various Toraja individuals and groups have drawn upon artistically-embellished "traditional" objects—as well as monumental displays, museums, UNESCO ideas about "word heritage," and the World Wide Web—to shore up or realign aspects of a cultural heritage perceived to be under threat. She also considers how outsiders—be they tourists, art collectors, members of rival ethnic groups, or government officials—have appropriated and reframed Toraja art objects for their own purposes. Her account illustrates how art can serve as a catalyst in identity politics, especially in the context of tourism and social upheaval. Ultimately, this insightful work prompts readers to rethink persistent and pernicious popular assumptions—that tourism invariably brings a loss of agency to local communities or that tourist art is a compromised form of expression. Art as Politics promises to be a favorite with students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, ethnic relations, art, and Asian studies.

Book Archiv 57 58

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3643999313
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Archiv 57 58 written by and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ICEHHA 2021

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sebastianus Menggo
  • Publisher : European Alliance for Innovation
  • Release : 2021-08-27
  • ISBN : 1631907018
  • Pages : 800 pages

Download or read book ICEHHA 2021 written by Sebastianus Menggo and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the First International Conference on Education, Humanities, Health, and Agriculture (ICEHHA 2021). Where held on 3rd-4th June 2021 in Ruteng, Flores, Indonesia. This conference was held by Universitas Katolik Indonsia Santu Paulus Ruteng. The papers from this conference were collected in a proceedings book entitled: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Education, Humanities, Health, and Agriculture (ICEHHA 2021). The presentation of such a multi-discipline conference will provide a lot of inspiring inputs and new knowledge on current trends in the fields of Education, Humanities, Health, and Agriculture. According to the argument, this conference will act as a valuable reference for numerous relevant research efforts in the future. The committee recognizes that the smoothness and success of this conference cannot be separated from the cooperation of numerous stakeholders. As such, we like to offer our profound gratitude to the distinguished keynote speaker, keynote speakers, invited speaker, paper presenters, and participants for their enthusiastic support of joining the First International Conference on Education, Humanities, Health, and Agriculture. We are convinced that the contents of the study from various papers are not only encouraged productive discussion among presenters and participants but also inspire further research in the respected field. We are greatly grateful for your willingness to join and share your knowledge and expertise at our conference. Your input was essential in ensuring the success of our conference. Finally, we hope that this conference will serve as a forum for learning in building togetherness, especially for academic networks and the realization of a meaningful academic atmosphere for the development of digital literacy in various fields of life. Thus, we hope to see you all at the second ICEHHA.