Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society

by Webb Keane

Book Overview

Webb Keane argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be thoroughly entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence. This book explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, on the Indonesian island of Sumba. Weaving together sharply observed narrative, close analysis of poetic speech and valuable objects, and far-reaching theoretical discussion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520204751
• ISBN13: 9780520204751
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"