Ibss: Anthropology: 1978

Ibss: Anthropology: 1978
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1990-12-31
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780422809306

First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Java that Never was

The Java that Never was
Author: Hans Antlöv
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783825865795

"This book is about how cultures and societies on Java over the past century have been perceived and socially constructed by scholars inside and outside of Indonesia. It is a reflective book; how, on the one hand, academic theories have shaped our view of Java and, on the other hand, how the study of Java has influenced theoretical developments within a number of disciplines, including anthropology, development studies, religious studies, political science, gender studies, and the arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Erotic Triangles

Erotic Triangles
Author: Henry Spiller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226769607

In West Java, Indonesia, all it takes is a woman’s voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day, men there—be they students, pedicab drivers, civil servants, or businessmen—breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies, weddings, political rallies, and nightclubs. The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles to the contemporary pop known as dangdut, but they consistently dance with great enthusiasm. In Erotic Triangles, Henry Spiller draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon, arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities. Framing the three crucial elements of Sundanese dance—the female entertainer, the drumming, and men’s sense of freedom—as a triangle, Spiller connects them to a range of other theoretical perspectives, drawing on thinkers from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lévi-Strauss, and Freud to Euclid. By granting men permission to literally perform their masculinity, Spiller ultimately concludes, dance provides a crucial space for both reinforcing and resisting orthodox gender ideologies.

Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia

Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Author: Henry Spiller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135901899

Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Indonesian values and modern-day life. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia provides an introduction to present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. Part One, Music and Southeast Asian History ̧ provides introductory materials for the study of Southeast Asian music. Part Two, Gamelan Music in Java and Bali, moves to a more focused overview of Gamelan music in Indonesia. Part Three, Focusing In, takes an in-depth look at Sundanese gamelan traditions, as well modern developments in Sundanese music and dance. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional Indonesian gamelan music.

Framing Indonesian Realities

Framing Indonesian Realities
Author: Peter J.M. Nas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004486828

Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape , or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold s retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology. The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold s work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia.

Wawasan: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019)

Wawasan: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2019)
Author:
Publisher: Fakultas Ushuluddin UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2019-12-26
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

WAWASAN: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya is a peer-reviewed journal which is published by Ushuluddin Faculty UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung incorporate with the scholars association: Asosiasi Studi Agama Indonesia (ASAI) publishes biannually in June and December. This Journal publishes current original research on religious studies and Islamic studies using an interdisciplinary perspective, especially within Islamic Theology (Ushuluddin) studies and its related teachings resources: Religious studies, Islamic thought, Islamic philosophy, Quranic studies, Hadith studies, and Islamic mysticism. WAWASAN: Jurnal Ilmiah Agama dan Sosial Budaya published at first Vol. 1, No. 1, 2016 biannually in January and July. However, since Vol. 2 No. 1, 2017, the journal’s publication schedule changed biannually in June and December. Reviewers will review any submitted paper. Review process employs a double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa.

Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan

Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan
Author: Helen Hardacre
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0691221561

The description for this book, Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, will be forthcoming.