Visible and Invisible Realms Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali

Name: Visible and Invisible Realms Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali
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ISBN: 9780226885827

ISBN-10: 0226885828

ISBN-13: 9780226885827

Edition: 1995

Authors: Margaret J. Wiener

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In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history. Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Power and Knowledge



Introduction



Colonial Representations of Klungkung



The View from Klungkung Power and the Invisible World



Making History: Balinese and Colonial Practices of Knowing



The Badad Dalem: The Sources of Klungkung's Power



The Colonial Encounter



Klungkung and the Dutch, 1840-1849 Encounters with Hegemony



The Kusamba War



The Dutch and Klungkung, 1849-1908 Relations of Knowledge and Power



The Destruction of the World



"Finishing"



The Empty Land


Epilogue: A Reinvented Klungkung


Appendix: Genealogies


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index