Inderjeet Parmar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231146296
- eISBN:
- 9780231517935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231146296.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the philanthropic intervention of the Ford Foundation in postcolonial Indonesia. The Ford Foundation philanthropy had primarily involved the University of California–Berkeley, ...
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This chapter examines the philanthropic intervention of the Ford Foundation in postcolonial Indonesia. The Ford Foundation philanthropy had primarily involved the University of California–Berkeley, the Economics Faculty at the University of Indonesia, and the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. The foundation has, therefore, established a tightly knit academic network oriented toward the production of scholars dedicated to policy-related work in Indonesian political and economic development. From 1951 to 1966, Ford's International Training and Research division expended more than two hundred million U.S. dollars on area studies, language development, the strengthening of professional fields, and the administration of foreign academics—all to promote a better understanding of “Western ideals” in Asia, which could only occur through studies of the “Asian mind.”Less
This chapter examines the philanthropic intervention of the Ford Foundation in postcolonial Indonesia. The Ford Foundation philanthropy had primarily involved the University of California–Berkeley, the Economics Faculty at the University of Indonesia, and the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project. The foundation has, therefore, established a tightly knit academic network oriented toward the production of scholars dedicated to policy-related work in Indonesian political and economic development. From 1951 to 1966, Ford's International Training and Research division expended more than two hundred million U.S. dollars on area studies, language development, the strengthening of professional fields, and the administration of foreign academics—all to promote a better understanding of “Western ideals” in Asia, which could only occur through studies of the “Asian mind.”
Catherine Allerton
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836320
- eISBN:
- 9780824869540
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836320.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid ...
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The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways “lively,” re-traveling routes between houses and villages and highlighting the advantages of mobility. Through everyday and ritual activities that emphasize liveliness,” the land gains a further potency: the power to evoke memories of birth, death, and marriage, to influence human health and fertility. This book is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behavior, and emotions. It situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia. Although it focuses on social life in one region of eastern Indonesia, the work engages with broader theoretical discussions of landscape, travel, materiality, cultural politics, kinship, and animism. Landscapes are significant, the book argues, not only as sacred or mythic realms, or as contexts for the imposition of colonial space; they are also significant as vernacular contexts shaped by daily practices. The book analyzes the power of a collective landscape shaped both by the Indonesian state's development policies and by responses to religious change.Less
The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways “lively,” re-traveling routes between houses and villages and highlighting the advantages of mobility. Through everyday and ritual activities that emphasize liveliness,” the land gains a further potency: the power to evoke memories of birth, death, and marriage, to influence human health and fertility. This book is an ethnographic investigation of the power of the landscape and the implications of that power for human needs, behavior, and emotions. It situates Manggarai place-making and mobility within the larger contexts of diverse human-environment interactions as well as adat revival in postcolonial Indonesia. Although it focuses on social life in one region of eastern Indonesia, the work engages with broader theoretical discussions of landscape, travel, materiality, cultural politics, kinship, and animism. Landscapes are significant, the book argues, not only as sacred or mythic realms, or as contexts for the imposition of colonial space; they are also significant as vernacular contexts shaped by daily practices. The book analyzes the power of a collective landscape shaped both by the Indonesian state's development policies and by responses to religious change.
