Signs of recognition : powers and hazards of representation in an Indonesian society
This work explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, Indonesia. The author argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence.
1 online resource (xxix, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780520917637, 9780585106014, 9780520204751, 9780520204744, 0520917634, 0585106010, 0520204751, 0520204743
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1. Introduction: Representation, Recognition, and Hazard
2. Geography, History, and Sociality
3. Things of Value
4. Loaded Terms
5. Text, Context, and Displacement
6. Voices, Agents, and Interlocutors
7. Formality and the Economy of Signs
8. Subjects and the Vicissitudes of Objects
9. Conclusion
English