Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia

Lee Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2015
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-28773-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Lee Wilson, Ph.D. 2008 (Cambridge) is a research fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. He has published on political conflict and martial arts, and security, civil militarism, politics and power in Indonesia.

Acknowledgements
Preface
I. From out of the Shadows
II. Bodies of knowledge: the pedagogy of Pencak Silat
III. Blessings, bone setting and the blood of the ancestors
IV. The management of tradition
V. From the Mystical to the Molecular
VI. Sovereign bodies and the practicalities of power
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Power and Place in Southeast Asia ; 299/7
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	527 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-28773-6 / 9004287736
ISBN-13	978-90-04-28773-0 / 9789004287730
Zustand	Neuware