Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia - Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands

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List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Borders of Belonging
—Renato Rosaldo
1. The Martyr and the Mayor: On the Politics of Identity in the Southern Philippines
—Patricia Horvatich
2. Moro, Muslim, or Filipino? Cultural Citizenship as Practice and Process
—Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli
3. The Forest and the Nation: Negotiating Citizenship in Sarawak, East Malaysia
—J. Peter Brosius
4. Who Appears in the Family Album? Writing the History of Indonesia's Revolutionary Struggle
—Jane Monnig Atkinson
5. Citizens as Spectators: Citizenship as a Communicative Practice on the Eastern Indonesian Island of Sumba
—Joel C. Kuipers
6. The News in the Provinces
—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

List of Contributors
Index

About the author

Renato Rosaldo is Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University and the author of Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989) and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980).

Summary

Moving the view of cultural citizenship to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines and Sarawak, East Malaysia, this text shows that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.

Product details

• Authors: Renato Rosaldo, Renato I. Rosaldo
• Assisted by: Renato Rosaldo (Editor), Renato I. Rosaldo (Editor), Rosaldo Renato (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2003
• EAN: 9780520227484
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22748-4
• No. of pages: 237
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Malaysia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Philippines, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Indonesia, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship