%0 Journal Article
%T Kala defanged: Managing power in Java away from the centre
%A Andrew Beatty
%J Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
%D 2012
%I Brill
%X If discussions of power in Indonesia have been too Java-centric, power talk about Java has been equally overcentralized. This article presents an alternative view to the top-down, hierarchical, exemplary-centre approach of Anderson, Geertz and others: the view from Banyuwangi in East Java. Through an analysis of local rituals, popular theatre and political action it proposes a different model based on consensus, relativism, and ritual containment.
%K Java
%K Power
%K Banyuwangi
%K Kala
%K Ritual
%K Indonesia
%K Exemplary centre
%U http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/8526