Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Indonesia

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BRILL, 2015年3月31日 - 258 頁
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.
 

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Introduction
1
From Out of the Shadows
25
Bodies of Knowledge The Pedagogy of Pencak Silat
53
Blessings Bone Setting and the Blood of the Ancestors
81
The Management of Tradition
111
From the Mystical to the Molecular
144
Sovereign Bodies and the Practicalities of Power
170
Bibliography
205
Index
227
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