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9780823232741 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 3, 2011, cover price $85.00
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9780823232758 | Fordham Univ Pr, January 3, 2011, cover price $35.00
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9780877278825 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, October 1, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Book by
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9780877278818 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, April 1, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Volume 81
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9780804751940 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 28, 2005, cover price $23.95
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9780804751957 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 25, 2005, cover price $23.95
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9780877277354 | Cornell Univ Southeast Asia, August 1, 2003, cover price $27.95
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9780520037144 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1978), cover price $42.50
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9780472086825, titled "The Rope of God" | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $36.00
In A New Criminal Type in Jakarta, James T. Siegel studies the dependence of Indonesiaâs post-1965 government on the ubiquitous presence of what he calls criminality, an ensemble of imagined forces within its society that is poised to tear it apart. Siegel, a foremost authority on Indonesia, interprets Suhartoâs New Orderâin powerful contrast to Sukarnoâs Old Orderâand shows a cultural and political life in Jakarta controlled by a repressive regime that has created new ideas among its population about crime, ghosts, fear, and national identity. Examining the links between the concept of criminality and scandal, rumor, fear, and the state, Siegel analyzes daily life in Jakarta through the seemingly disparate but strongly connected elements of family life, gossip, and sensationalist journalism. He offers close analysis of the preoccupation with crime in Pos Kota (a newspaper directed toward the lower classes) and the middle-class magazine Tempo. Because criminal activity has been a sensationalized preoccupation in Jakartaâs news venues and among its people, criminality, according to Siegel, has pervaded the identities of its ordinary citizens. Siegel examines how and why the government, fearing revolution and in an attempt to assert power, has made criminality itself a disturbing rationalization for the spectacular massacre of the people it calls criminalsâmany of whom were never accused of particular crimes. A New Criminal Type in Jakarta reveals that Indonesiansâonce united by Sukarnoâs revolutionary proclamations in the name of âthe peopleââare now, lacking any other unifying element, united through their identification with the criminal and through a ânationalization of deathâ that has emerged with Suhartoâs strong counter-revolutionary measures. A provocative introduction to contemporary Indonesia, this book will engage those interested in Southeast Asian studies, anthropology, history, political science, postcolonial studies, public culture, and cultural studies generally.
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9780822322122 | Duke Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In A New Criminal Type in Jakarta, James T.
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9780822322412 | Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $19.95
Product Description: This book concerns the role of language in the Indonesian revolution. James Siegel, an anthropologist with long experience in various parts of that country, traces the beginnings of the Indonesian revolution, which occurred from 1945 through 1949 and which ended Dutch colonial rule, to the last part of the nineteenth century...read more
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9780691026534 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: This book concerns the role of language in the Indonesian revolution.
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9780691026527 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 14, 1997, cover price $66.00
In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such.
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9780691094274 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people.
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9780691000855 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 7, 1993), cover price $55.00
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9780226756905 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1978, cover price $50.00
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