Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

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Titel:: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138.2013

Erscheinungsjahr:: 2013

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Titel:: Bd. 138, 2013, Heft 1

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Titel:: Re-imagining 'the West' and performing 'Indonesian modernities': Muslims, Christians and paranormal practitioners

Sonstige Person:: Schlehe, Judith; Nertz, Melanie V.; Yulianto, Vissia Ita

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Re-imagining ‘the West’ and performing Indonesian modernities’: Muslims, Christians and paranormal practitioners Judith Schlehe, Melanie V. Nertz and Vissia Ita Yulianto* Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Werthmannstr. 10, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany Abstract. This paper explores the connections of attitudes towards the West in contemporary Indonesia to concepts and. performances of modernity and to religious identification. Anthropological fieldwork was conducted on Java and Sulawesi using an innovative methodological approach to combine the re- sults of differently positioned researchers. It turned out that most Indonesians constitute their Selves by differentiating between positive and negative aspects of Western Others as counter-images that reveal either weaknesses or strengths within their own society. Yet, the West is no longer the ultimate frame of reference. Since the polarity of Orient and Occident is losing its significance, orientations are shifting towards new imagined centres. [Anthropology of Indonesia, Occidentalism, Modernity, Islam, Christianity, Paranormal] Introduction Social positioning and the politics of cultural identity go hand in hand with the con- stitution of differences and representation of the foreign. This article seeks to explore cultural discourses and constructions of the West in contemporary Indonesia. In recent years both the critique of Orientalism (cf. Said 1978; Schnepel 2011) and the Islamist terror attacks on the West have inspired debate on how ‘the East’ perceives ‘the West’. The focus of such interest, with most attention paid to extremist voices rather than to those of ordinary people, has been the Middle East. While Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, has mostly been overlooked in this context. Indonesia is an extremely diverse nation, with 300 ethnic groups and six formally recognized religions. As a result of the Islamic revival of the 1970s and the ensuing era The authors are collaborating in the project: “Knowledge of the West in Indonesia: Anthropological Investigations in Urban and Rural Spaces on Java and Sulawesi”. We are indebted to the German Re- search Foundation (DFG) for funding this project within the interdisciplinary project “Beyond Occi- dentalism: Concepts of ‘the West’ in Asia”. We also wish to thank the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for supporting the Southeast Asian Studies program at Freiburg. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 138 (2013) 3-22 © 2014 Dietrich Reimer Verlag

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