TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rutherford,Danilyn
TI  - Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier 
SN  - 9780691223414
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
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KW  - Adadikam, Dominggus
KW  - Bali, tourism on
KW  - Berlin Conference
KW  - Bonggoibo, Kundrad
KW  - Boseren, Biromor
KW  - Durkheim, Emile
KW  - East Timor
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Geertz, Cliffor
KW  - Goffman, Erving
KW  - Handler, Richard
KW  - Indonesian
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KW  - Kaisiëpo, Frans
KW  - Kant, Immanuel
KW  - Korps Márechausee
KW  - Lawrence, Peter
KW  - Lisan
KW  - Lontar Foundation
KW  - Malay
KW  - Mambesak
KW  - Orlove, Benjamin
KW  - Osborne, Robin
KW  - Pancasila
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KW  - Poe, Edgar Allan
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KW  - colonialism
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KW  - dispute resolution
KW  - ethnography
KW  - fetishism
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KW  - globalization
KW  - holidays and fear of separatism
KW  - incest
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KW  - slavery
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N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Map --; A Note on Languages and Locations --; Preface: Becoming a Foreigner --; CHAPTER ONE. On the Limits of Indonesia --; CHAPTER TWO. Frontier Families --; CHAPTER THREE. The Poetics of Surprise --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Authority of Absence --; CHAPTER FIVE. Messianic Modernities --; CHAPTER SIX. The Subjection of the Papuan --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Subject of Biak? --; Epilogue: On Limits --; Notes --; Glossary --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya--Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s, the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians. Taking in the dynamics of Biak social life and the islands' long history of millennial unrest, Rutherford shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Approaching the foreign as a focus of longing in cultural arenas ranging from kinship to Christianity, Biaks participated in Indonesian national institutions without accepting the identities they promoted. Their remarkable response to the Indonesian government (and earlier polities laying claim to western New Guinea) suggests the limits of national identity and modernity, writ large. This is one of the few books reporting on the volatile province of Irian Jaya. It offers a new way of thinking about the nation and its limits--one that moves beyond the conventions of both scholarship and recent journalism. It shows how people can "belong" to a nation yet maintain commitments that fall both short of and beyond the nation state
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223414?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223414
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