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5) Indonesia
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Comments on its cultural traditions and their conflict with Dutch colonizers, and analyzes President Sukarno's political experiment in "Guided Democracy."
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"The act of killing" is an examination of the murder of political dissidents in Indonesia by government sponsored death squads in the years following the military coup in 1965, in which the filmmakers were successful in persuading those responsible to reenact the killings for the camera in the fashion of American movies.
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A comprehensive history of Indonesia and its peoples, from ancient origins to the present day. Colin Brown brings contemporary research to bear on Indonesian history in this readable volume which explores Indonesia from the earliest recorded history through colonialism, to the 21st century.
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The legendary East Indies is today a nation archipelago of 13,677 islands, stretching 3,000 miles from the southwestern tip of Thailand east to the coral sea near Australia, and containing a variety of natural wonders and breathtaking vistas, unique wildlife, and some 300 cultures of striking diversity - one of which is little changed since the Stone Age. Abundantly rich in resources, the world's largest Muslim state, and home to 200 million people,...
18) Naming the witch
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Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard...
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Australasia has long been the professional beat of author-journalist Maslyn Williams, and this book is a direct product of that expert knowledge, reinforced by four months of travel in Indonesia in 1964 [during a period of economic troubles just before the coup of 1965]. It is one of the few thoroughgoing yet popular profiles of that yeasty, sprawling, disturbing land available to American readers. In Mr. Williams' journeys, Jakarta, the capital,...
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