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Ritual, Entertainment, and Modernization: A Javanese Case*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

James L. Peacock
James L. Peacock
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University of North Carolina
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Extract

This paper deals with some relationships between Javanese modernization, a Javanese ritual called slametan, and a Javanese folk-show called ludruk. I shall illustrate how slametan and ludruk play complementary roles with respect to Javanese modernization.

Type
The Spectators' Relation to Drama
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , April 1968 , pp. 328 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1968

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References

1 vanGennep, Arnold, The Rites of Passage, Trans. Vizedom, Monika B. and Caffee, Gabrielle L. (Chicago, 1960), p. 11.Google Scholar

2 Geertz, Clifford, The Religion of Java (New York, 1960), p. 11.Google Scholar

3 Defatted treatment of this point as well as others presented in this paper will be found in my forthcoming book, Rites of Modernization: Proletarian Drama as Symbolic Action in Indonesian Society (Chicago, 1968), ch. 5, 15–16.Google Scholar

4 For example, see Levy, Marion J., Jr., Modernization and the Structure of Societies (Princeton, New Jersey, 1965), volume I, part I, chapter I.Google Scholar

5 Geertz, Clifford, “Ritual and Social Change: A Javanese Example”, American Anthropologist, volume 59 (1957). See especially pages 36–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar