The Spell of Power

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-6718-090-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 170, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Note: This title was out of print. Re-issued in its original form in 2010.

The first comprehensive history of Balinese politics from the middle of the 17th century till the end of Dutch colonial rule in 1942. Based on extensive research in colonial archives in the Netherlands and Indonesia, a variety of Balinese historical narratives, interviews with former colonial officials as well as many Balinese, and fieldwork data concerning temples, rituals, and oral histories.
Schulte Nordholt traces Balinese history by means of a collective biography of the Mengwi dynasty, describing the rise to power, the formation and expansion of a negara, the subsequent crises, and its fall in 1891. Between 1906 and 1942 Bali became part of the Dutch colonial state and experienced bureaucratic rule and processes that resulted in a ‘traditionalization’ of Balinese kingship and culture. The story of the Mengwi dynasty under colonial rule ended in a conflict between two factions. This conflict had an unexpected but devastating outcome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schulte Nordholt, H.G.C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Henk Schulte Nordholt (1953) is Head of the Research Department of KITLV. Since 2007 he is KITLV professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.