Rituals of rule in the administered community: the Javanese slametan reconsidered
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Date
2006
Authors
Newberry, Janice C.
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Cambridge University Press
Abstract
Ethnographic work in an urban kampung in central Java reveals this community
form to be both an administrative rationality and a set of locally meaningful social
relations. The continued restatement of the relevance of community through
the Javanese ritual meal known as the slametan and women’s roles in these
rituals of commensality are the focus of this consideration. State sponsorship of
housewives as community welfare workers extends the long arch of kampung
community formation as the ground for the dispersion of rituals of rule into the
lives of Indonesian citizens as well as working-class recuperation through rituals
of community. State formation conceived as process draws attention to everyday
kampung culture as the matrix for reproduction of both rule and working class
neighbourhoods, and provides a perspective on the state that is resolutely low,
attuned to both the realities of institutional structure and the repertoires and
routines of everyday practise.
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Sherpa Romeo green journal. Permission to archive accepted author manuscript.
Keywords
Neighborhood meetings , Kampung culture , Rituals of rule , Java , Javanese slametan , Javanese housewives , PKK , Community rituals
Citation
Newberry, J. (2007). Rituals of rule in the administered community: The Javanese slametan reconsidered. Modern Asian Studies, 41(6), 1295-1330. doi:10.1017/S0026749X06002575