Genesis in Buli
Christianity, Blood, and Vernacular Modernity on an Indonesian Island
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2734631 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Bubandt (0000-0003-1655-6727, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 249 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1828 • E-ISSN: 2160-3510 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3774065 |
| OpenAlex | W2098301907 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 53 |
Christianity and local ontology in the North Malukan village of Buli intersect in surprising ways that upset conventional ideas about tradition and modernity. The poetics and cultural politics of blood, as these emerge in an idiosyncratic telling of Genesis, attest to a paradoxical modernity. In this ambivalent modern imaginary, traditional ontology frequently structures pretensions to being modern, while modern sensibilities form the basis of ostensibly traditional assertions. Attending to the discursive and ontological aspects of blood in Buli therefore provides a way of analyzing the entangled imaginaries of modernity and tradition in a marginalized Indonesian community, and by extension a way of bringing the debates about invented traditions and alternative modernities into constructive conversation. (Symbolism and politics of blood, alternative modernities, objectified tradition) Tradition and modernity long ago lost analytical credibility as antithetical concepts or as simple descriptive labels appropriate for two radically different types of society. In the wake of the invention-of-tradition debate initiated in the 1980s, which called attention to the modern politics involved in making and remaking tradition
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Epistemology · Ethnology · Indonesian · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies
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The curse
Powers of Horror
Modernity at large
Marxist modern
The Invention Of Tradition
Blood Magic
Contracting Colonialism
Outline of a Theory of Practice
On the Subject of "Java"
Fields of the Lord
In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Other ModernitiesGendered Yearnings in China after Socialism
Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity
The Order of Things
Michel Foucault
Modernity as history
Purity and Danger
A Cross‐Cultural Study of Menstruation, Menstrual Taboos, and Related Social Variables
Two Theories of Modernity
The Maluku Wars
The Doctor's Dilemma
Adam and Eve on the Island of Roti
Bound Blood
Menstrual Purity
Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History
Culture as art
On the Political Construction of Tradition
Ambiguous Bleeding
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1
Dissociated Identities
The Symbolic Significance of Menstruation and the Menopause
Of Mimicry and Membership
The Inversion of Tradition
Occidentalism
Religions in Dialogue
The Making of the Maori
Two Theories of Modernity
Alternative Modernities
Differentiations of Modernity
Goodby to Tristes Tropes
The odour of things
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |