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Haunting Malayness

The multicultural uncanny in a new Indonesian province

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ID2267660
AutoresNicholas J Long (0000-0002-4088-1661, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume16
Fascículo4
Páginas874-891
Data de publicação2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01658.x
OpenAlexW1554302897
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas13

This article investigates how useful notions of 'Malay spirit beliefs' and 'the uncanny' are for analysing encounters with mysterious non-human creatures, known as makhluk gaib , in Indonesia's Riau Archipelago. It suggests that the multiplicity of cosmologies within a plural society necessarily frustrates efforts to analyse such encounters within the framework of specific cultural worldviews. Rather, interactions between humans and makhluk gaib come to be meaningful through being embedded in the diverse affective experiences of multicultural living. To gain greater analytic purchase on the diversity of affects fostered within the case material, the article rehabilitates Freud's suggestion that one can delineate multiple species of the uncanny. Species concerned with repression and historical memory are shown to be less unsettling than recent theoretical interventions suggest, whilst a more powerful species of the uncanny is argued to derive from the multiculturalism of the region's population in the context of provincial secession. Résumé L'auteur décrit l'utilité de notions de « croyances malaises dans les esprits » et de « l'étrange » pour l'analyse de rencontres avec de mystérieuses créatures non humaines appelées makhluk gaib dans l'archipel indonésien de Riau. Il suggère que les efforts d'analyse de ces rencontres dans le cadre de visions du monde culturelles spécifiques se heurtent inévitablement à la multiplicité des cosmologies au sein d'une société plurielle. De fait, les interactions entre les humains et les makhluk gaib prennent leur signification parce qu'elles sont tissées dans les expériences affectives diverses d'une vie multiculturelle. Afin d'avoir une meilleure prise pour analyser la diversité des affects fournie par les matériaux, l'auteur réhabilite la suggestion de Freud selon laquelle on peut identifier de nombreuses sortes d'étrange. Celles ayant un lien avec la répression et la mémoire historique s'avèrent moins dérangeantes que ne le suggèrent les interventions théoriques récentes, tandis qu'une sorte plus puissante d'étrange serait issue du multiculturalisme de la population de la région, dans le contexte de sa sécession provinciale

Aesthetics · Art · Indonesian · Linguistics · Multiculturalism · Sociology · Uncanny · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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Intervalo de citações2012 - 2025 (14)
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