Belakangan ini, kita sepertinya mulai lupa membicarakan Indonesia dari sudut pandang semangat dan kerangka utamanya, yakni Republik. Kelupaan akan republik membuat kita merasa bahwa tanpa perbuatan aktif dan sengaja untuk menjaga dan memeliharanya, republik akan tetap ada sepanjang masa. Padahal, secara perlahan kita mulai kehilangan berbagai pegangan fundamental menyangkut proyek hidup bersama…
This is an intensive study of the folk culture of the village of Chan Kom, located in the north central part of the Yucatan peninsula. The basic presentation is in twelve chapters concentrating successively on the village and its setting; history; tools and techniques; economics; the division of labor; family, village and state; the invisible world; ceremonies of field and hive; the novena and …
KONFLIK TANAH DI MANGGARAI, FLORES BARAT: Pendekatan sosiologik menyajikan kajian sosiologis yang komprehensif tentang masalah konflik tanah di Manggarai, dengan mengupas masalah sistem pertanahan yang sudah menjadi adat, pengadilan adat-yang keputusannya sering ditolak oleh pemilik tanah, potensi dan intensitas konflik, dan kontroversi hukum nasional dalam penerapannya. Buku ini penting bagi p…
Buku ini memuat kajian tentang perusahaan-perusahaan kapitalis di antara bangsa-bangsa Asia Tenggara dan Cina perantauan yang mengalami pertumbuhan spektakuler. kajian tersebut tidak menggunakan pendekatan model-model formal, tetapi melalui berbagai organisasi dan budaya yang kapitalisme Asia tertanam didalamnya. Buku ini menunjukkan bahwa ada perseden-perseden yang rumit untuk dan terhadap kap…
Suku Bajo pernah menguasai perairan Nusantara di masa silam. Hampir seluruh pulau berpenduduk di Nusantara pernah mereka rambah. Tak heran mereka dianggap sebagai jembatan penghubung pulau-pulau Nusantara dan cermin keunggulan bahari. Ketika menguasai Nusantara, penjajah menghalau Suku Bajo dari berbagai tempat. Kini suku terkemuka ini tinggal tersudut di salah satu kawasan di Sulawe…
This major inter-disciplinary collection, edited by two of the best respected figures in the field, provides a superb general introduction to this subject. Chapters include discussions of fieldwork methodology, analyzing discourse, the advantages and pitfalls of team approaches, the uses of computers, and the applications of qualitative data analysis for social policy. Shrewd and insightful, th…
A study of 'the ideological foundations' of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of rule.
Apa makna menjadi sukses? Bagaimana caramu meraih mimpi? Apa artinya kamu harus menciptakan sederet daftar pencapaian yang hebat? Apa kamu harus meraih kesejahteraan, status, posisi, dan pengaruh yang bergengsi? Atau mungkin saja kamu harus menyenangkan orangtua, keluarga dan teman-temanmu? Aku menulis buku ini untuk membahas semua pertanyaan itu dan ingin menciptakan road map untuk membantumu …
Buku ini diterbitkan pada Februari tahun 2004, dan kemudian dicetak lagi dan terbit September 2004. Sebenarnya buku ini sudah diterbitkan sejak lama. Cetakan pertamanya Desember 2000, namun kembali dicetak ulang kedua kalinya pada bulan Oktober 2003. Maklum saja, di tahun 2000, buku ini dilarang peredarannya. Buku ini adalah salah satu buku yang terkena sweeping buku “kiri” yang dilakukan A…
“Buku ini memuat sejumlah tulisan kritis mengenai politik oligarki dan perkembangan kapitalisme. Hampir setiap artikel menyajikan telaah berguna yang diadaptasi dengan kondisi spesifik Indonesia. Telaah tersebut dikembangkan lewat pergulatan dengan berbagai perdebatan teoretis yang mendasar, tetapi dibarengi pemahaman empiris dan historis yang mendalam. Setuju atau tidak dengan tesis oligarki…
A deluxe edition of Bolaño's collected poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which "you become infinitely small without disappearing." When asked, "What makes you believe you're a better poet than a novelist?" Bolaño replied, "The poetry makes me blush less." The sum of his life's wor…
A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all the odds. So impressive was the surface appearance of this rescue mission that all manner of commentators proclaimed—once again—that a ‘new economy’ or ‘new paradigm’ of unlimited and harmonious growth had been forged. Today, as recession looms, the babble about Internet start-ups is …
Setelah sempat mati suri sebagai kajian akademik maupun isu politik, persoalan kewarganegaraan kembali merebak pasca era 1990an akibat pelbagai perkembangan kontemporer. Homogenisasi kapital oleh arus globalisasi neoliberal memunculkan persoalan mengenai hak-hak ekonomi warga. Globalisasi juga memunculkan persoalan lain terkait politik identitas dan multikulturalisme, ketika kemudahan arus i…
How money, politics and managerialism turned a golden age for culture into lead Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything, from nation…
Rife with political corruption, sex, and jealousy, 'The Skating Rink' is a darkly atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in the seaside town of Z. It revolves around the figure skating champion Nuria Marti. When she is suddenly dropped from the Olympic team an admirer builds an ice rink for her in the ruins of a mansion."
The most important study of Javanese religion since Clifford Geertz's Religion of Java (1960). An ethnographically rich and historically detailed portrait of the last Hindu enclave in Muslim Java, Hefner's work is also a compelling account of the symbolic processes involved in religious conversion. . . . This is a brilliant study which is certain to appeal to readers concerned with post-structu…
One of the most powerful of the Seth Books, this essential guide to conscious living clearly and powerfully articulates the furthest reaches of human potential, and the concept that we all create our own reality according to our individual beliefs. Having withstood the test of time, it is still considered one of the most dynamic and brilliant maps of inner reality available today.
A deathbed confession revolving around Opus Dei and Pinochet, By Night in Chile pours out the self-justifying dark memories of the Jesuit priest Father Urrutia. As through a crack in the wall, By Night in Chile's single night-long rant provides a terrifying, clandestine view of the strange bedfellows of Church and State in Chile. This wild, eerily compact novel�Roberto Bola�o's first w…
The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities to the patterns of thought which characterized the Victorian's views of race. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialized thinking of the past, Colonial Desire illustrates how we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other,' both sexually and racially. Colonial Desire is a co…
A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bola�o: 'his generation's premier Latin-American writer' (The New York Times). A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing i…
The novel is narrated in first person by numerous narrators and divided into three parts. The first section, 'Mexicans Lost in Mexico', is told by 17-year-old aspiring poet, Juan Garc�a Madero. It centers on his admittance to a roving gang of poets who refer to themselves as the Visceral Realists. He drops out of university and travels around Mexico City, becoming increasingly involved with t…
A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vast…
Dengan lebih dari 800 entri yang jelas dan ringkas, Kamus Sejarah Indonesia memuat informasi yang padat tapi kuat terkait tokoh, tempat dan organisasi. Termasuk soal ekonomi, budaya serta politik. Semuanya diramu dari sumber-sumber sejarah kuno Indonesia sampai masa kontemporer. Kelengkapan informasi kamus ini ditambah dengan daftar pustaka, peta, kronik sejarah, daftar singkatan dan lampiran h…
I La Galigo is music-theater work by Robert Wilson that has been shown since 2004 in Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States. It is based on an adaption by Rhoda Grauer of the epic creation myth Sureq Galigo of the Bugis from South Sulawesi, written between the 13th and 15th century in the Indonesian language Buginese.
'Walser's shorter prose work defy classificaton because of their essentially peripatetic nature. To an even greater degree than Kafka, Walser practised and vindicated the freedom to improvise, at the clearly recognized risk of remaining as classless in literature as he chose to be in society' -Michael Hamburger