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Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television
This book studies the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat and related media practices, and, building on that, assesses mediatization processes, meaning the potential influence of technology-based media practices. Pencak Silat represents a cultural system of values and beliefs, with hierarchical structures and relations, and social advancement being mediated in embodied social learning. The study contributes to martial arts studies and media studies, demonstrating potentials and limitations of media technologies and their (dis-)embodiment – their extension or reduction of the body as medium, and their embeddedness in or detachment from a given socio-cultural context. With Pencak Silat being practiced all over Indonesia, by a large part of the population, the thesis also represents a contribution to Indonesian studies. Based on extensive fieldwork (between 2008 and 2016), the study analyzes martial arts and/as media in Indonesia, and presents an ethnography of Pencak Silat and mediatization.
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography
This book illustrates the role of researchers’ affects and emotions in understanding and making sense of the phenomena they study during ethnographic fieldwork. Whatever methods ethnographers apply during field research, however close they get to their informants and no matter how involved or detached they feel, fieldwork pushes them to constantly negotiate and reflect their subjectivities and positionalities in relation to the persons, communities, spaces and phenomena they study. The book highlights the idea that ethnographic fieldwork is based on the attempt of communication, mutual understanding, and perspective-taking on behalf of and together with those studied. With regard to the in...
Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became major box office hits. The emergence of the phenomenally popular “J-Horror” genre inspired similar ghost movie productions in Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore. Ghost movies are embedded and reflected in national as well as transnational cultures and politics, in narrative traditions, in the social worlds of the audience, and in the perceptual experience of each individual. They reflect upon the identity crises and traumas of the living as well as of the dead, and they unfold affection and attraction in the border zone between amusement and thrill, secular and religious worldviews. This makes the genre interesting not only for sociologists, anthropologists, media and film scholars, but also for scholars of religion.
A Grammar of Teiwa
Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in estern Indonesia. It has approximately 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. The genetic relationship between the Alor-Pantar languages and other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan outliers. This volume presents a grammatical description of one of these 'outlier' languages. The grammar is based on primary field data, collected by the author in 2003-2007. A selection of glossed and translated Teiwa texts of various genres and world lists (Teiwa-English/English-Teiwa) are included
A Grammar of Teiwa
Teiwa is a non-Austronesian ('Papuan') language spoken on the island of Pantar, in eastern Indonesia, located just north of Timor island. It has approx. 4,000 speakers and is highly endangered. While the non-Austronesian languages of the Alor-Pantar archipelago are clearly related to each other, as indicated by the many apparent cognates and the very similar pronominal paradigms found across the group, their genetic relationship to other Papuan languages remains controversial. Located some 1,000 km from their putative Papuan neighbors on the New Guinea mainland, the Alor-Pantar languages are the most distant westerly Papuan outliers. A grammar of Teiwa presents a grammatical description of o...
Human–Environment Relations and Politics in Indonesia
This book analyses how people in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, relate to their environment in different political and historical contexts. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic studies of Dayak people, the indigenous inhabitants of Borneo, the book examines how human-environment relationships differ and collide. These "conflicting ecologies" are based on people's relation to the "environment", which encompasses the non-human realm in the widest sense, including forests, rivers, land, natural resources, animals and spirits. The author argues that relationality and power are decisive factors for the understanding and analysis of peoples’ ecologies. The book integrate...
Soziologie 4/2019
Die »Soziologie« ist das Forum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS). Die Zeitschrift fördert die Diskussion über die Entwicklung des Fachs, informiert über die Einbindung der deutschen Soziologie in ihren europäischen und weltweiten Kontext und dient dem Informationsaustausch über die Arbeit in den Sektionen und Arbeitsgruppen innerhalb der DGS. Herausgegeben im Auftrag der DGS: Prof. Dr. Sina Farzin; Redaktion: Prof. Dr. Sylke Nissen und Dipl.-Pol. Karin Lange, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Soziologie.
Ritual seks - Sex als ritueller Akt der Heiligenverehrung
Die Wahrnehmung des Islam in Indonesien ist radikal auf seine lebensfeindlichen bis gewaltbereiten Komponenten verkürzt. Dagegen setzt Volker Gottowik einen anderen Akzent. Er fokussiert auf heterodoxe Praktiken, die im Kontext von Pilgerfahrt und Heiligenverehrung auf Java untersucht werden. Dazu gehören ritualisierte Sexualkontakte (ritual seks), die Pilger untereinander eingehen, um den Segen des verehrten Heiligen zu empfangen. Im Zentrum der Analyse stehen die gesellschaftlichen Reaktionen auf solche Praktiken. Die Rückschlüsse, die daraus gezogen werden, zeigen deutlich: Eine erweiterte Perspektive auf Islam und Islamisierung ist dringend notwendig.
Grenzüberschreitend forschen
Was verbirgt sich hinter der oft verwendeten Vorsilbe Trans*? Um diese Frage aus kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive zu beleuchten, stellen die Beiträge des Bandes aktuelle grenzüberschreitende Praktiken, Konzepte und Austauschbeziehungen vor. Sie zeigen: Gerade für die hier betrachteten Regionen - vom Nahen Osten und Indien über Süd- bis nach Ostasien - haben Trans*Syndrome eine wichtige Bedeutung. Die kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Rest der Welt führt zu Konflikten in Alltag, Kultur und Politik. Es kommt aber auch zu Prozessen der Übersetzung, Grenzüberschreitung und Verwandlung, was neue Perspektiven und Praktiken hervorbringt.
Beberapa Catatan Mengenai Bahasa Terancam di Pulau Alor dan Pantar (Indonesia Timur) (Penerbit USM)
Beberapa dasawarsa yang lalu penulis dipercayakan untuk memprakarsai pemerian bahasa yang dipakai di kepulauan Alor dan Pantar, Indonesia Timur. Bahasa tersebut termasuk peringkat bahasa yang disebut bahasa non-Austronesia yang sangat berbeza daripada bahasa Austronesia yang pada umumnya digunakan di sekitar kepulauan itu (ada beberapa kekecualian di Pulau Timor). Penelitian ini menghasilkan antara lain suatu buku kecil yang mengandungi data mengenai distribusi bahasa, daftar kata, penggolongan bahasa yang sementara dan keterangan mengenai beberapa aspek morfologis. Sejak kegiatan itu, beberapa ahli bahasa memberikan perhatian kepada kepulauan yang terpencil itu mahupun penduduk dan bahasanya, sehingga kini jauh lebih diketahui mengenai bahasa masing-masing. Syarahan ini membentangkan secara singkat beberapa aspek tatabahasa, dengan pembahasan spesifik tentang erti kata pronomina, awalan tV dan adverbia lokal dalam Bahasa Woisika. Akhirnya beberapa pikiran disajikan mengenai nasib bahasa itu yang jelas dapat dianggap dalam keadaan terancam.
