Author: Pemberton, John
Title: On the Subject of "Java
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1994). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,333 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. A removed-label mark to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Seminal Contradicitons: Founding the Palace of Surakarta; Writing Subjects, Writing Authorities: "Java" in the 19th Century; Prophetic Conclusion: Surakarta in Late Colonial Times; Origin Revisited: A Circuitous Return to the Present; On the Pracrtice of Wedding: Ritual Domestication in the New Order; Village Cleansing, Local Spirits: Traces of Difference; The New Order's Other "Java": Sacred Sitings, Otherworldly Communications; Afterword.

Keywords: Indonesia, Cultural, Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnology, Colonial History, Java Ethnohistory, Southeast Asia, Surakarta