Book contents
- The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
- Asian Connections
- The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 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 Change, 1920s–1950s
- 7 Fragility, Losing, and Anxieties over Loss: Difficult Pasts in Wider Asian and Global Contexts
- Epilogue: Heritage Sites, Difficult Histories, and ‘Hidden Forces’ in Post-Colonial Indonesia
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Site Interventions, Knowledge Networks, and Changing Loyalties on Java, 1800–1850s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2019
- The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
- Asian Connections
- The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 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 Change, 1920s–1950s
- 7 Fragility, Losing, and Anxieties over Loss: Difficult Pasts in Wider Asian and Global Contexts
- Epilogue: Heritage Sites, Difficult Histories, and ‘Hidden Forces’ in Post-Colonial Indonesia
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter, set in the first half of the nineteenth century, and starting from Hindu–Buddhist and Islamic sites in Java, focuses on site visits and encounters, between European antiquarian-collectors and Javanese elites in search of knowledge, as they miscommunicate or exchange knowledge at Hindu–Buddhist sites that were being rediscovered, cleaned, and documented between 1800 and the 1850s. The second part of the chapter focuses on the huge restoration of the mosque of Demak in the years 1842–1848, the first to be officially supported by the colonial government. It reveals how various networks of knowledge, interests, and administrative and military power came together at one site, and kept the balance in fragile post-(Java) War times. Throughout, the chapter shows how the hierarchies of knowledge were not fixed, and how heritage and knowledge exchange helped alter old loyalties or forge new ones in the context of the violent regime changes of the early nineteenth century.
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- The Politics of Heritage in IndonesiaA Cultural History, pp. 22 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020