Raiding the Land of the ForeignersPrinceton University Press, 2003 - 296 pages What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya--Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. |
Contents
On the Limits of Indonesia | 1 |
The Nation | 4 |
The Foreign | 13 |
Fetishism | 19 |
Utopia | 24 |
Between Awakenings | 29 |
Frontier Families | 31 |
The Dislocation of Kinship | 34 |
The Meanings of Reading | 120 |
Collapsing Distances | 134 |
Messianic Modernities | 137 |
Modernity and the Indonesianization of Indonesia | 140 |
Mythical Limits | 146 |
Two Tales of Conversion | 150 |
Beyond Comparison | 169 |
The Subjection of the Papuan | 172 |
Front Doors Back Doors | 40 |
Mothers and Children | 43 |
Brothers and Sisters | 49 |
Interlude on Love Violence and Debt | 62 |
Brothers and Brothers | 65 |
History Revisited | 70 |
The Poetics of Surprise | 73 |
The Unpredictable Potency of Biak Warriors | 76 |
Magical Feasts for Fish | 80 |
Vocal Feasts for Families | 90 |
Visual Feasts for Foreigners | 99 |
Surprise and Subversion | 105 |
The Authority of Absence | 109 |
Authority and Textuality | 111 |
The Making of Big Foreigners | 115 |
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