Cultural citizenship in island Southeast Asia : nation and belonging in the hinterlands / edited by Renato Rosaldo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosaldo, Renato.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Ethnicity--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Ethnicity.

Nationalism--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Nationalism.

Indigenous peoples--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Indigenous peoples.

Politics and government.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government--Congresses.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 228 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]

Summary:

Nation building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted -- or coerced -- from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery -- specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia -- to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created, through dialogue between local communities and the state. Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists, these essays address the question of how the identities of peoples whose lives are "marginal" to the modern nation-state have been shaped, nonetheless, by the impingement of the nation-state on their worlds. Examining the interactions between Southeast Asian ethnic minorities and the political centers of power that attempt to draw these minorities into the nation-building process, the authors focus in particular on the concept of citizenship, both political and cultural: How do minority groups living on the peripheries of the nation define their own identities and their relationship to the center? How does the state regard their status and their claims as citizens of the nation?

Contents:

Introduction: The Borders of Belonging / Renato Rosaldo 1

1. The Martyr and the Mayor: On the Politics of Identity in the Southern Philippines / Patricia Horvatich 16

2. Moro, Muslim, or Filipino? Cultural Citizenship as Practice and Process / Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli 44

3. The Forest and the Nation: Negotiating Citizenship in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 76

4. Who Appears in the Family Album? Writing the History of Indonesia's Revolutionary Struggle / Jane Monnig Atkinson 134

5. Citizens as Spectators: Citizenship as a Communicative Practice on the Eastern Indonesian Island of Sumba / Joel C. Kuipers 162

6. The News in the Provinces / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 192.

Notes:

"Collection grew out of a conference ... held at the East-West Center, in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2-4, 1993"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520227476

0520227484

OCLC:

50447611