Rituals of rule in the administered community: the Javanese slametan reconsidered
Date
2006
Authors
Newberry, Janice C.
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Publisher
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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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