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Published in Koran Tempo, 28 July 2002
Etnografi, Realisme, Fiksi
Fadjar I. Thufail
Sejak lima dekade yang lalu, para antropolog telah memanfaatkan etnografi sebagai wahana untuk menuangkan pengalaman dan kajian mereka. Etnografi menjadi sebuah cara yang dianggap paling tepat untuk ...
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This blog has been dormant for the last twelve months. The reason is partly because I moved from Wisconsin to take up a new post as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Since ...
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When the revolutionary youths gathered in 1928 and took a Youth Oath (Sumpah Pemuda), under the nervous gaze of the Dutch colonial government, they never imagined that the event would later stand to be the political foundation of the Indonesian ...
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Over the last few weeks, the public has learned about a famous Muslim preacher, Abdullah Gymnastiar (aka Aa Gym), who took a second wife and has started to practice a polygamous marriage. The news has surprised many Muslims, not only ...
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I submitted this writing as an op-ed essay to Kompas Daily Newspaper one day after Geertz passed away. As usual, Kompas rejected this piece, arguing that what I wrote in the essay was an outdated topic. “Nothing new”, the rejection ...
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Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia Milton, and Leigh Payne, eds. 2005. The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
The most difficult challenge a country faces after the authoritarian regime collapses is in dealing with ...
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In my previous blog, I wrote a short note on Clifford Geertz’s influential contribution to anthropology. Geertz was no doubt a leading anthropologist and cultural theorist whose interests spanned over a wide range of issues. His work has influenced not ...
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Clifford Geertz passed away on October 31, 2006 in Philadelphia. No doubt Indonesia owes much to this respected anthropologist. His book, “The Religion of Java,” is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of Islam in Indonesia, calling for observers to devote more ...
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Mary S. Zurbuchen (ed.) 2005. Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
In this book, I contribute an essay, “Ninjas in Narratives of Local and National Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia.”
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Over the last few years, after the New Order political regime crumbled in 1998, Indonesians have been debating whether we need to rewrite our national history. The major event driving the public debate is the history of the 1965 tragedy ...