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In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Solo in the New Order
• Subtitle: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City
• Author: James T. Siegel
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9780691000855
• ISBN: 0691000859
• ID: 04639072
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 425 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. September 1993

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