Overview
How can a controversy about forms of deference (show of respect to the elite) in Java reveal tensions around colonial policies and the rise of nationalism? What was VietNamese about the French colonial governor's palace in Hanoi, and how did the VietNamese design partially French rural houses? What can the circulation of jazz in Asia tell us about changing meanings of jazz, circuits of exchange, colonial culture, and its appropriation? How did scholarly societies' collaboration across imperial boundaries influence colonial policies? Such questions point us to the evolving meanings of objects, ideas, and practices that can be interpreted and resituated in numerous ways. This interdisciplinary volume traces the multi-linear trajectories of the flow of decorative objects, architectural styles, photographs, sartorial practices, music, deference rituals, and ethnographic knowledge, in a trans-imperial framework within and beyond Southeast Asia and Europe. In exploring colonial culture, power relations, and circuits of exchange, this book highlights the interplay of diverse groups, and examines shared spaces and cultures that produced strategies of integration, adaptation and appropriation as well as resistance. Underlining a wide range of actors, their motivations, and interactions, this volume complicates the binary of the colonizer-colonized, and also treats cultural heritage as dynamic processes.
Full Product Details
Author: H. Hazel Hahn
Publisher: NUS Press
Imprint: NUS Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.488kg
ISBN: 9789813250062
ISBN 10: 9813250062
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 01 February 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This very engaging edited volume presents a variety of perspectives on interactions between the local and the global in Southeast Asia. . . . The volume is easy to read and enjoy, with thought-provoking, thorough, and well-written contributions, complemented by a useful and comprehensive bibliography. The study offers new and welcome insights, while also suggesting new research possibilities in the fields of both cultural studies and history. -- Choice
The book is thus a successful array of fine-grained studies of 'strategies of integration, adaptation, and appropriation as well as resistance' in colonial encounters.... By giving us, post-colonials, a closer view of the exchanges made, the transfers of things, the spaces shared, and relationships formed at this period of Southeast Asia's history, this book provides us more material for thinking about and working on our present political imaginations. --Andrea Ragragio Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde This very engaging edited volume presents a variety of perspectives on interactions between the local and the global in Southeast Asia. . . . The volume is easy to read and enjoy, with thought-provoking, thorough, and well-written contributions, complemented by a useful and comprehensive bibliography. The study offers new and welcome insights, while also suggesting new research possibilities in the fields of both cultural studies and history. -- Choice
Author Information
H. Hazel Hahn is professor of history at Seattle University. He is the author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century and coeditor of Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History.
