Politics of Heritage in Indonesia - A Cultural History

List of contents

Introduction: towards a mobile history of heritage formation in Asia; 1. Site interventions, knowledge networks, and changing loyalties on Java, 1800-1850s; 2. Exchange, protection, and the social life of Java's antiquities, 1860s-1910s; 3. Great sacred Majapahit: biographies of a Javanese site in the nineteenth century; 4. Greater Majapahit: the makings of a proto-Indonesian site across decolonisation, 1900s-1950s; 5. The prehistoric cultures and historic past of South-Sumatra on the move; 6. Resurrecting Siva, expanding local pasts: centralisation and the forces of imagination across war and regime changes, 1920s-1950s; 7. Fragility, losing, and anxiety over loss: difficult pasts in wider Asian and global contexts; Epilogue: heritage sites, difficult histories, and 'hidden forces' in postcolonial Indonesia.

About the author

Marieke Bloembergen is senior researcher at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), and Professor in Archival and Postcolonial Studies at Universiteit Leiden. She has published on the politics and mobility of knowledge in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, through the lens of policing and violence, material culture, and heritage practices within inter-Asian and transnational contexts.Martijn Eickhoff is senior researcher at NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies, and Professor in Archaeology and Heritage of War and Mass Violence at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. He has published widely on the relation between archaeology, politics, heritage formation, and mass violence, in Asia and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Summary

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, through the lens of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. It focuses on the mobility of heritage as a multi-sited phenomenon that engages with, and goes beyond, the interests of states.

Product details

• Authors: Marieke Bloembergen, Marieke Eickhoff Bloembergen, Bloembergen Marieke, Martijn Eickhoff, Eickhoff Martijn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781108713061
• ISBN: 978-1-108-71306-1
• No. of pages: 339
• Series: Asian Connections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, Art of indigenous peoples, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Art, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Indonesia, Archaeology by period / region, Colonial art