Friendship in Java
Narratives of Relatedness and Culture Politics in Postcolonial Indonesia
Published on 17. February 2020
221 pages
978-3-940132-86-4 (ISBN)
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Focusing on friendship practices and perceptions in contemporary Java, this book takes an innovative approach to analysing social structure, relatedness, and patronage in the context of a postcolonial nation in the Global South. Friendships in Java are highly flexible forms of relatedness that are embedded in a particular cultural context and influenced by Javanese cosmology, Islam, and political structure. This mixture has produced notions of sociality that were exploited by Indonesia's first two presidents in an effort to unite the new and fragmented nation. The book suggests that friendship relations in Java resemble a synthesis of Javanese ideals of good behaviour, the need for social security, attachment, and the influence of national culture politics. They constitute a major form of relatedness that is particular to postcolonial Indonesia.
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Friendship in Java
Narratives of Relatedness and Culture Politics in Postcolonial Indonesia
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Content
- Cover "Friendship in Java"
- Title
- Imprint
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Glossary of Indonesian and Javanese Words
- Introduction
- A quick note on functionalist pitfalls
- Outline
- 1. Friendship: Context, Theory, and Approaches
- Looking at what is there
- Friendship in a nutshell
- Reciprocity
- Care
- Trust
- Java and postcolonial Indonesia
- Friendships in Java
- 2. Data Collection and Methods
- Research ethics
- Ethnographic research
- Participant observation
- Oral data and interviews
- Analysis
- Written data: essays, sketches, and field diary
- Cooperative and engaged research
- Sample
- Locations
- Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta: the area of Yogyakarta
- Jakarta
- 3. Excavating Friendship in Indonesia
- Local histories, Western historiographies
- Native kingdoms
- Colonial rule
- Independence: Negara Kesatuan Republik Indonesia
- Filsafat sosial: Javanese social philosophy
- Gotong royong
- Korupsi, kolusi, nepotisme
- Family and kinship relations
- Yogyakarta: the centre of kejawen
- The making of a postcolonial cultural capital
- Ideal discourses of relatedness
- The kawula-gusti relationship
- Literary sources of ideal relationships
- The Pararaton
- The Babad Tanah Jawi
- Expressive sources of relatedness: Wayang and Ketoprak
- The Wayang
- The Ketoprak
- 4. Teman: Metaphors of Social Security
- Local friendship grammatologies
- Teman
- Teman baik and teman akrab
- Teman kerja
- Gotong royong revisited
- Bapakism and anak buah: strategic and asymmetrical friendship
- Teman in a nutshell
- 5. The Keluarga Complex: Family, Intimacy, and Sahabat
- Keluarga: the family
- The trah: relatedness as friendship and genealogy
- Friendship and the missing family
- The orphanage annex: a family of friends?
- Resisting the keluarga: friendship as empowerment
- The role of feelings and emotions
- The click phenomenon
- Sahabat
- Jagongan: hanging out
- Kepercayaan - trust
- Transformation of a concept
- 6. Conclusion: Friendship in Postcolonial Indonesia
- Suggestions for further research
- Bibliography
