Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia Nation & Belonging in the Hinterlands

"This important book, full of new and original perspectives, will be of great interest to students and specialists of Southeast Asia. It also makes important contributions to the anthropological and historical study of cultural citizenship, postcolonial nation building, and the dynamics of ethnic identity."and#151;Suzanne Brenner, author of The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java

"This stimulating volume of essays makes a very strong contribution to an understanding of how pre-modern cultural diversity in some parts of Southeast Asia have been reconfigured as modern states have promoted distinctive and powerfully backed 'imagingings' of nation."and#151;Charles Keyes, author of Social Memory and Crises of Modernity: Politics of Identity in Thailand and Laos

"This tightly focused and high quality volume will make an important contribution to Southeast Asian studies, while connecting the rich ethnographic literature of that region with a set of contemporary theoretical questions that transcend geographic areas."and#151;James Ferguson, author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conductedand#151;or coercedand#151;from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the peripheryand#151;specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysiaand#151;to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.

Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists, these essays address the question of how the identities of peoples whose lives are "marginal" to the modern nation-state have nonetheless been shaped by the impingement of the nation-state on their worlds. Together, these essays make a powerful contribution to understanding how cultural diversity in some parts of Southeast Asia has been reconfigured as modern states have promoted distinctive and powerfully-backed "imaginings" of nations.

Renato Rosaldo is Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University and the author of Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (1989) and Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (1980).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Borders of Belonging

and#151;Renato Rosaldo

1. The Martyr and the Mayor: On the Politics of Identity in the Southern Philippines

and#151;Patricia Horvatich

2. Moro, Muslim, or Filipino? Cultural Citizenship as Practice and Process

and#151;Lanfranco Blanchetti-Revelli

3. The Forest and the Nation: Negotiating Citizenship in Sarawak, East Malaysia

and#151;J. Peter Brosius

4. Who Appears in the Family Album? Writing the History of Indonesia's Revolutionary Struggle

and#151;Jane Monnig Atkinson

5. Citizens as Spectators: Citizenship as a Communicative Practice on the Eastern Indonesian Island of Sumba

and#151;Joel C. Kuipers

6. The News in the Provinces

and#151;Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

List of Contributors

Index