Rifle reports : a story of Indonesian independence
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Rifle reports : a story of Indonesian independence
（A Philip E. Lilienthal book）
University of California Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also trying to come to grips with the meaning of "independence." "Rifle Reports" is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was experienced on the outskirts of the nation among Karo Batak villagers in the rural highlands of North Sumatra. Based on extensive interviews and conversations with Karo veterans, "Rifle Reports" interweaves personal and family memories, songs and stories, memoirs and local histories, photographs and monuments, to trace the variously tangled and perhaps incompletely understood ways that Karo women and men contributed to the founding of the Indonesian nation. The routes they followed are divergent, difficult, sometimes wavering, and rarely obvious, but they are clearly marked with the signs of gender.
This innovative historical study of nationalism and decolonization is an anthropological exploration of the gendering of wartime experience, as well as an inquiry into the work of storytelling as memory practice and ethnographic genre.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Technical Notes Introduction: The Outskirts of the Nation 1. The Golden Bridge 2. Buried Guns 3. Imagining Independence 4. Eager Girls 5. Sea of Fire 6. Letting Loose the Water Buffaloes 7. The Memory Artist Conclusion: The Sense of an Ending Appendix 1: List of Informants Appendix 2: Glossary and Abbreviations Appendix 3: Time Line Notes References Index of Informants General Index
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