Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Benedict R. O’G. Anderson
• CLAIRE HOLT

Titel

The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture

Ist Teil von

• Culture and Politics in Indonesia, 2019, p.1

Ort / Verlag

Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In spite of the considerable body of scholarly work that has been done on Indonesian, and especially Javanese history and culture, few attempts have been made at a systematic analysis either of traditional political conceptions or of their powerful, continuing impact on contemporary Indonesia. The first deficiency can in part be attributed to the fact that Indonesia’s classical literatures, unlike those of China and India, contain no full-fledged expositions of any indigenous “political theory.” A contemporary reconstruction of such a theory has therefore to be abstracted from scattered historical sources and then synthesized with fragmentary insights drawn from field experience.