Peter J M Nas
Biographic Data
| ID | 115243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter J M Nas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nas |
| SIGNATURE | NAS P J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Urban Anthropology
The urban anthropologist as flâneur; The symbolic pattern of Indonesian cities
Cities are places full of symbols. In the past decades, Indonesian cities have become the cradle of urban symbolism studies. In this article, the author presents the results of these studies. The cities researched differ tremendously, ranging from the national capital to provincial capitals and small towns; some of them, such as Jakarta, are purely colonial in origin, while others are more or less traditional in character. Some of them have a top…
Race’ and inequality in postcolonial urban settings Examples from Peru, Jamaica, and Indonesia
In this essay we present three case studies of Peru, Jamaica and Indonesia toillustrate the use of the concept of race in daily life in relation to labour, popularculture and beauty respectively. These cases demonstrate how the use of theconcept of race changes in the transition from a colonial into a postcolonialsetting, depending on the role of the state and nation building. In Peru, we seea clear continuation of racialized thinking; thinking a…
Flooding in Jakarta
Sunday, 27 January 2002, a large flood swept down on Jakarta and inundated several parts of the city. From the evening of 27 January to the morning of 28 January rain came streaming down, and the dike south of Jakarta broke. The pungent black water, with a hefty cargo of garbage, poured onto the main roads to Bogor, Kramat Jati and East Jakarta. In North Jakarta, in Kelurahan Pejagalan, Kecamatan Penjaringan, the flooding or banjir hit at midnigh…
Indonesian Houses
This collection aims to attract attention to the admirable achievements of indigenous builders in Indonesia and to contribute to a broader sense of commitment to the endangered architectural heritage in the region. It presents the second part of the results of a research project on vernacular architecture in western Indonesia, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. The volume is intended to provide an introduction to all relevant…
Indonesian Houses
The kampong
Directors of Urban Change in Asia
The ethics of spying
Informal Waste Management
A Note on Anthropomorphic Architecture
This poster article highights the revival of the anthropomorphic design in modern architecture by presenting two striking examples
Framing Indonesian Realities
Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape , or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold s retirement from the Department…
A Task Ahead 1
More and more, anthropologists will be forced to direct their attention towards the mega-urban areas that, increasingly, are dominating societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In this contribution based on the closing lecture delivered at the IUAES Inter- Congress held in Beijing, 28 July 2000, Peter J. M. Nas emphasizes the fundamental social transformations that are taking place moving us towards an urbanized and informational society. He …
Java and de groote postweg, la grande route, the great mail road, Jalan Raya Pos
Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture
Jakarta Batavia
This book combines the work of twenty-one authors from East and West, some of whom are long-time residents of Jakarta and all of whom have lived and studied there for shorter or longer periods. They have in common that each of them has become fascinated by certain characteristics of Jakarta’s many-sided life. The subjects they deal with range from conditions in VOC Batavia to particular national or ethnic communities to administrative development…
Towards Sustainable Cities. Urban Community and Environment in the Third World
The role of the city in environmental change and deterioration seems to be ambivalent and in order to explore this ambivalence we have to pose several questions. What is the essence of the city in generating development, on the one hand, and of environmental problems, on the other hand? How have the relations between town and countryside been shaped and how are these relationships connected to sustainability of town and countryside? What exactly …
Reminiscences of the relief of Leiden
This article examines the Third of October festivities in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands, held in commemoration of its relief from the Spanish siege in 1574. These festivities are defined as a total urban ritual event and put in a historical perspective. They include all sorts of activities such as the handing out of herring and white bread, the eating of a beef stew, reveille, choral singing, a solemn church service of thanksgiving, and the…
Introduction
The house in Indonesia; Between globalization and localization
Global, national and local perspectives; Introduction
Urban Anthropology
Issues in Urban Development
Urban Symbolism
This volume deals with a hitherto largely neglected aspect of cities, namely the symbolic and ritual structure in which the urban community is rooted. This fascinating facet is explored in a combined effort by social anthropologists, sociologists, historians and philologists for cities like Jakarta, Padang, Bangkok, Beijing, Tokyo, Baghdad, Kathmandu, Lucknow, Francistown, Vitoria and Buenos Aires. Three perspectives on the study of symbolism in …
Jakarta, City Full of Symbols
This article focuses on the signs and symbols of contemporary Jakarta, including statues, street names, images of the city in poems, paintings, stamps, graffiti, word games, as well as in the modern myths, which are being spread by television. Alongside the symbolism of Jakarta, it also takes that of Leiden into consideration. While it attempts to flesh out some insights on Jakarta and Leiden from their contrasts, it does not aim at a systematic …
Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture
Java and de groote postweg, la grande route, the great mail road, Jalan Raya Pos
Jakarta, City Full of Symbols
This article focuses on the signs and symbols of contemporary Jakarta, including statues, street names, images of the city in poems, paintings, stamps, graffiti, word games, as well as in the modern myths, which are being spread by television. Alongside the symbolism of Jakarta, it also takes that of Leiden into consideration. While it attempts to flesh out some insights on Jakarta and Leiden from their contrasts, it does not aim at a systematic …
Flooding in Jakarta
Sunday, 27 January 2002, a large flood swept down on Jakarta and inundated several parts of the city. From the evening of 27 January to the morning of 28 January rain came streaming down, and the dike south of Jakarta broke. The pungent black water, with a hefty cargo of garbage, poured onto the main roads to Bogor, Kramat Jati and East Jakarta. In North Jakarta, in Kelurahan Pejagalan, Kecamatan Penjaringan, the flooding or banjir hit at midnigh…
The ethics of spying
Introduction
The Indonesian City
Race’ and inequality in postcolonial urban settings Examples from Peru, Jamaica, and Indonesia
In this essay we present three case studies of Peru, Jamaica and Indonesia toillustrate the use of the concept of race in daily life in relation to labour, popularculture and beauty respectively. These cases demonstrate how the use of theconcept of race changes in the transition from a colonial into a postcolonialsetting, depending on the role of the state and nation building. In Peru, we seea clear continuation of racialized thinking; thinking a…
The house in Indonesia; Between globalization and localization
Global, national and local perspectives; Introduction
Issues in Urban Development
Local Autonomy
Urban management is dependent on the possibilities offered by the administrative structure in which it has to operate and it can, accordingly, be adequately analysed from the perspective of local autonomy. In this article, the latter concept is specified in terms of of four components, namely, the legal-constitutional, resources, linkages, and ideology. The structure of the Indonesian administrative system is described and particular emphasis is …
The Origin and Development of the Urban Municipality in Indonesia
The meaning attached to city is placed centrally in works of Caste Us. According to him, cities are liable to change because all sorts of parties are permanently struggling over meaning city should have. He defines urban meaning as the structural performance assigned as a goal to cities in general (and to a particular city in inter-urban division of labour) by conflictiv e process between historical actors in a given society ' . This article abou…
Town and Countryside in Indonesia
This article commences with a short overview of background thinking concerning the opposition between town and countryside and a number of arguments supporting the sceptics view. These concepts are then questioned with respect to their general relevance and explanatory power with regard to migratory movements. It is argued that such concepts should not just be considered reflections of social reality but perceived as myths used as tools for model…
Stratifikatieonderzoek in het Caribisch Gebied
A classification of kabupatens in Indonesia for regional development planning
The Indonesian City
House, culture and development
Generally the word house is associated with a building, a material construction, providing or intended to provide shelter.A large part of anthropological and sociological literature on the house is linked to this meaning.An abundance of descriptions of particular houses and types of houses from all over the world can be found dealing with the lay-out of house and plot, construction materials and techniques, architecture, ornaments and furniture.T…
Town and Countryside in Indonesia
This article commences with a short overview of background thinking concerning the opposition between town and countryside and a number of arguments supporting the sceptics view. These concepts are then questioned with respect to their general relevance and explanatory power with regard to migratory movements. It is argued that such concepts should not just be considered reflections of social reality but perceived as myths used as tools for model…
The Origin and Development of the Urban Municipality in Indonesia
The meaning attached to city is placed centrally in works of Caste Us. According to him, cities are liable to change because all sorts of parties are permanently struggling over meaning city should have. He defines urban meaning as the structural performance assigned as a goal to cities in general (and to a particular city in inter-urban division of labour) by conflictiv e process between historical actors in a given society ' . This article abou…
Local Autonomy
Urban management is dependent on the possibilities offered by the administrative structure in which it has to operate and it can, accordingly, be adequately analysed from the perspective of local autonomy. In this article, the latter concept is specified in terms of of four components, namely, the legal-constitutional, resources, linkages, and ideology. The structure of the Indonesian administrative system is described and particular emphasis is …
Images of Western milieu or the legitimation of a strategic group
Jakarta, City Full of Symbols
This article focuses on the signs and symbols of contemporary Jakarta, including statues, street names, images of the city in poems, paintings, stamps, graffiti, word games, as well as in the modern myths, which are being spread by television. Alongside the symbolism of Jakarta, it also takes that of Leiden into consideration. While it attempts to flesh out some insights on Jakarta and Leiden from their contrasts, it does not aim at a systematic …
Urban Symbolism
This volume deals with a hitherto largely neglected aspect of cities, namely the symbolic and ritual structure in which the urban community is rooted. This fascinating facet is explored in a combined effort by social anthropologists, sociologists, historians and philologists for cities like Jakarta, Padang, Bangkok, Beijing, Tokyo, Baghdad, Kathmandu, Lucknow, Francistown, Vitoria and Buenos Aires. Three perspectives on the study of symbolism in …
Issues in Urban Development
Urban Anthropology
Towards Sustainable Cities. Urban Community and Environment in the Third World
The role of the city in environmental change and deterioration seems to be ambivalent and in order to explore this ambivalence we have to pose several questions. What is the essence of the city in generating development, on the one hand, and of environmental problems, on the other hand? How have the relations between town and countryside been shaped and how are these relationships connected to sustainability of town and countryside? What exactly …
Reminiscences of the relief of Leiden
This article examines the Third of October festivities in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands, held in commemoration of its relief from the Spanish siege in 1574. These festivities are defined as a total urban ritual event and put in a historical perspective. They include all sorts of activities such as the handing out of herring and white bread, the eating of a beef stew, reveille, choral singing, a solemn church service of thanksgiving, and the…
Introduction
The house in Indonesia; Between globalization and localization
Global, national and local perspectives; Introduction
Jakarta Batavia
This book combines the work of twenty-one authors from East and West, some of whom are long-time residents of Jakarta and all of whom have lived and studied there for shorter or longer periods. They have in common that each of them has become fascinated by certain characteristics of Jakarta’s many-sided life. The subjects they deal with range from conditions in VOC Batavia to particular national or ethnic communities to administrative development…
A Task Ahead 1
More and more, anthropologists will be forced to direct their attention towards the mega-urban areas that, increasingly, are dominating societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In this contribution based on the closing lecture delivered at the IUAES Inter- Congress held in Beijing, 28 July 2000, Peter J. M. Nas emphasizes the fundamental social transformations that are taking place moving us towards an urbanized and informational society. He …
Java and de groote postweg, la grande route, the great mail road, Jalan Raya Pos
Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture
Framing Indonesian Realities
Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. Reading the landscape , or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold s retirement from the Department…
Informal Waste Management
A Note on Anthropomorphic Architecture
This poster article highights the revival of the anthropomorphic design in modern architecture by presenting two striking examples
Directors of Urban Change in Asia
Geography (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Asian Studies and History (7 works) · Art (5 works)