Fetish, Recognition, Revolution

Name: Fetish, Recognition, Revolution
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ISBN: 9780691026527

ISBN-10: 0691026521

ISBN-13: 9780691026527

Edition: 1997

Authors: James T. Siegel

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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. At that time, the peoples of the Dutch East Indies began to translate literature from most places in the world. Siegel discovers in that moment a force within communication more important than the specific messages it conveyed. The subsequent containment of this linguistic force he calls the "fetish of modernity," which, like other fetishes, was thought to be able to…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/6/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.54" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Fetish of Appearance



The "I" of a Lingua Franca



What Did Not Happen to Indonesians



Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal?



Recognition



Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom



Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism



Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation



The Wish for Hierarchy



Revolution



Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion



Revolution


Epilogue


Notes