Javanese culture / Koentjaraningrat
Digitised Book 18.188.216.102 (0)
1989
Information About
This book represents the most comprehensive and ambitious study of the Javanese and their soeiety to appear since the time of Raffles's eelebrated The History of Java. It presents the general historical background to Javanese society and culture and then covers in detail the various facets ot Javanese peasant life, urban culture, and Javanese values and beliefs. The chapter on Javanese religion, in particular, analyses the complex of elements which go to make up Javanese beliefs in a unique and original manner.
Additional Details
- Creators
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- Koentjaraningrat, 1923-
- Subject
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- Culture--Indonesia--Java
- Publisher
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- Oxford University Press, 1989
- National Library Board Singapore, 1989
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill., maps
- Table of Contents
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- 1. Introduction. 1. The homeland 2. Population... -- 2. A brief history of Javanese culture. 1. Prehistory. 2. The period of the Hindu—Javanese states. 3. The emergence of Javanese Islamic states... -- 3. Javanese peassant culture. 1. Studies of Javanese peasant communities. 2. Socialization and enculturation in the peasant family of orientation... -- 4. Javanese urban culture. 1. Social categories in urban communities. 2. Socialization and enculturation in the Priyayi family of orientation... -- 5. Javanese religion. 1. Agami Jawi and Agami Islam Santri. 2. The Agami Jawi belief system... -- 6. Javanese symbolic system and value orientation. 1. The symbolic system. 2. Javanese peasant and Priyayi values...
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.