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25230/09/2022 (Hardcover)
30/09/2022 (Paperback)
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9781925608380
At the Edge of Mangrove Forest
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This book explores the emergence of indigeneity among the Suku Asli, a group of post-foragers living on the eastern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. In the past, despite indefinite ethnic boundaries and the fluidity of their identity, they were known as Utan (Forest) or Orang Utan (Forest People). Since 2005, however, their indigeneity has been problematized and many Utan have adopted the new ethnonym of ‘Suku Asli’ (indigenous people) and begun claiming their position within the Indonesian state as an integrated and distinctive ethnic group—a group, that is, associated with a unique adat (tradition), a particular indigenous identity, and ancestral lands. The emergence of this identity reflects not only their own aspirations but also their entanglement with a government that aims to transform the lives of local tribal people.
The development of Suku Asli indigeneity in the context of Indonesia is imagined, articulated, and recognized in a very particular way by the state. However, the Suku Asli have a tacit, non-articulated, and unconscious identity and connection with place that has been fostered in their history—that is, indigeny. It is through the liaison between indigeneity and indigeny that the Suku Asli have reconfigured their traditional identity and place within the nation state. Focusing on some of the most important manifestations and embodiments, this book charts the emergence of indigeneity and relates it to the entanglement of the people and the government. Regarding indigeneity as an epistemological perspective, and indigeny as an indigenous ontology, Takamasa Osawa describes some of the ways in which tribal people come to embody, resist, and transform the government image of indigenous people and accomplish their modernization—a modernization demanding, first and foremost, a distinctive and well-bounded indigenous identity.
About Editors and Authors
OSAWA Takamasa is a lecturer at Kansai University. He holds a PhD from University of Edinburgh. He is a social anthropologist who has studied indigenous communities in Riau, Indonesia. In recent years, he has engaged in a transdisciplinary project to empower indigenous communities in tropical peatland environments.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Positioning Suku Asli as Indigenous Peoples or an Adat Community
Chapter 1: Under State Politics: State Formation, Ethnic Category, and Development Subjects
Chapter 2: Identity as Non-Muslims: Orang Asli, Peranakan, and Ancestral Worship
Chapter 3: Consolidation of People and Place: Foraging, Space, and Historical Continuity
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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Positioning Suku Asli as Indigenous Peoples or an Adat Community
Chapter 1: Under State Politics: State Formation, Ethnic Category, and Development Subjects
Chapter 2: Identity as Non-Muslims: Orang Asli, Peranakan, and Ancestral Worship
Chapter 3: Consolidation of People and Place: Foraging, Space, and Historical Continuity
Chapter 4: Establishment of an Organization: Leadership, Power, and Government Intervention
Chapter 5: Manifestation of Tradition: Adat, Performance, and Integration
Chapter 6: Creation of Homogeneity: Agama, Buddhism, and Abstraction
Conclusion: The Ongoing Quest for Indigeneity
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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