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
5 - The Prehistoric Cultures and Historic Past of South Sumatra on the Move
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 broadens the scope of the Java-centric politics of archaeology and heritage towards Sumatra. The first archaeological activities on Sumatra, performed in the context of the colonial state, dated from the start of the nineteenth century. But it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that the now ‘archaeological’ sites of South Sumatra were more systematically inventoried and appropriated in the context of historical and ethnographic descriptions, geographical expeditions, military conquest, and the establishment of governmental structures. This chapter examines how South Sumatra, in particular Palembang, the Pasemah area, and Jambi, became gradually incorporated in the colonial archaeological infrastructure, as it was developed in Batavia, the administrative centre of the expanding colony. It focuses on interactions between state-supported ‘modern’ heritage concepts, local and regional appropriations of certain archaeological sites and objects, and the development of nationalist history writing by Sumatra-born Indonesians who also included the early past of Sumatra.
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- The Politics of Heritage in IndonesiaA Cultural History, pp. 164 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020