Language and Power

by Benedict Anderson

Book Overview

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history--that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language, Bahasa Indonesia, by peoples (especially the Javanese) whose cultures are rooted in medieval...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801497582
• ISBN13: 9780801497582
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"