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- Title
A Wind of Change on Java’s Ruined Temples.
- Authors
BLOEMBERGEN, MARIEKE; EICKHOFF, MARTIJN
- Abstract
This article focuses on early archaeological activities on Java between 1800 and 1850 in the context of the multiple regime changes of that period. It engages with the New Imperial History’s network-centred approach by looking at circuits of archaeological knowledge gathering in which not empire, but Java’s ruined Hindu and Buddhist temple sites provide ‘the nodal points’. By tracing how people, objects and ideas travelled via these sites, and between the Netherlands and the colony, the article aims to understand the origins and nature of heritage awareness of the modern colonial state. It argues that this archaeological site-centred approach helps us understand how both European concepts and indigenous appropriations of archaeological sites contributed to the development of heritage awareness. There were complex multilayered power-hierarchies at work at these sites and forms of indigenous agency that we might miss if we follow only empire-centred networks.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; CULTURAL property; HISTORY of Java, Indonesia; ARCHAEOLOGY &; state; ARCHAEOLOGY; HISTORY
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2013, Vol 128, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/bmgn-lchr.8356