عنوان

Meaning-Making Practices, Copyrights, and Architecture in the Indonesian Archipelago

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LA129626

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Meaning-Making Practices, Copyrights, and Architecture in the Indonesian Archipelago

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[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Whitney A. Bauman

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This article examines the connections between meaning-making practices and how those practices are codified into institutions and structures that shape individual identities. The theoretical and geographical locus of this article is Indonesia where one can be Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, or Confucian, but not outwardly an atheist. In practice, there are a lot of hybrid religious identities, and this is echoed in Indonesia's economic and legal institutions, and even its architecture. In other words, what Tom Boellstorff identifies as an "archipelagic" understanding of the self in Indonesia is supported by multiple meaning-making practices and is reinforced through such technologies as copyright laws and architecture. Whereas the monotheistic traditions of the West, and even the Middle East, take place over large uninterrupted geographical spaces, the Muslim monotheism that spreads throughout the Indonesian archipelago takes on different forms depending on the context of the Island. With the rise of Indonesian nationalism, these various contexts are drawn together into a hybrid-monotheism. Such pastiche is reinforced in legal, economic, and architectural technologies. The pluralistic and hybrid beliefs and identities of the archipelago, can provide fertile grounds for articulating a planetary environmental ethic. This article examines the connections between meaning-making practices and how those practices are codified into institutions and structures that shape individual identities. The theoretical and geographical locus of this article is Indonesia where one can be Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, or Confucian, but not outwardly an atheist. In practice, there are a lot of hybrid religious identities, and this is echoed in Indonesia's economic and legal institutions, and even its architecture. In other words, what Tom Boellstorff identifies as an "archipelagic" understanding of the self in Indonesia is supported by multiple meaning-making practices and is reinforced through such technologies as copyright laws and architecture. Whereas the monotheistic traditions of the West, and even the Middle East, take place over large uninterrupted geographical spaces, the Muslim monotheism that spreads throughout the Indonesian archipelago takes on different forms depending on the context of the Island. With the rise of Indonesian nationalism, these various contexts are drawn together into a hybrid-monotheism. Such pastiche is reinforced in legal, economic, and architectural technologies. The pluralistic and hybrid beliefs and identities of the archipelago, can provide fertile grounds for articulating a planetary environmental ethic.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

184-202

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

19/2

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

archipelagic self

Subject Term

globalization

Subject Term

Indonesia

Subject Term

planetarity

Subject Term

planetary

Whitney A. Bauman

Call Number

10.1163/15685357-01902007

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[Article]

275578

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