Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia

Discusses How Colonial Dominance In Indonesia, And In Particular On Java, Was Legitimized And Maintained As Well As Negotiated And Contested Through The Everyday Staging And Public Performance Of Power Between Colonizer And Colonized, For Instance Through Changes In Language, Etiquette, Deference Rituals, Dress, Consumer Patterns, And Lifestyles-- Provided By Publisher.