Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm.

By:

Errington, Shelly

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400860081
1400860083

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm.DDC classification:

306.095984

LOC classification:

GN635.I65

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Part I.A Geography of Signs ; Part II. Centrifugal Tendencies ; Part III. Centripetal Structures ; Conclusions; Illustrations Following Page.

Summary: The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the ""head of state"" but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons and houses were and are viewed as centered spaces (locations) where spiritual potency can gather. Shelly Errington explores the politics of constituting and maintaining such centered socio-political spaces in a former Indic State called Luwu, which lies in South Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. The meaning of political life and the ways its cultural forms were and are sustained depend on locally construed ideas of ""power"" or spiritual potency.

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Cover; Contents; Part I.A Geography of Signs ; Part II. Centrifugal Tendencies ; Part III. Centripetal Structures ; Conclusions; Illustrations Following Page.

The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the ""head of state"" but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons and houses were and are viewed as centered spaces (locations) where spiritual potency can gather. Shelly Errington explores the politics of constituting and maintaining such centered socio-political spaces in a former Indic State called Luwu, which lies in South Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia. The meaning of political life and the ways its cultural forms were and are sustained depend on locally construed ideas of ""power"" or spiritual potency.

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