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
Introduction: Towards a Mobile History of Heritage Formation in Asia
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 introduction discusses the benefits of a mobile approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia. Starting at Hindu–Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric sites of heritage in Indonesia, the monograph will focus on people’s encounters and knowledge exchange taking place there, across colonial and post-colonial regimes. It follows site-related objects travelling, like the famous Buddhist statues from Borobudur temple, gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam, to gauge how and why these objects have transformed in meaning and play a role in parallel processes of heritage formation inside and outside Indonesia. With this site-centred and mobile approach, we can explain the relationships between heritage formation and religion, violence, and regime change over time, and show the concerns of local subjects and elites, of scholars, pilgrims, and tourists, entering colonial and post-colonial Indonesia and moving out of state-centred archaeology and transnational cultural associations, and of global (UNESCO) politics.
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- The Politics of Heritage in IndonesiaA Cultural History, pp. 1 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020