Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality

Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society

By (author) Bagoes Wiryomartono

Publication date:

13 July 2016

Length of book:

160 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498533089

Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society is an examination of the social and cultural geography of Java. This book penetrates and surveys the Javanese world, and examines the traditions, customs, arts, urban habitation, polity, history, and belief systems of people who speak the Javanese language and live on Java Island in the Indonesian archipelago. A primary focus in these essays is to analyze the meanings of locality in the context of arts, architecture, polity, and society, with the hope of unveiling the potential of local culture in enriching and strengthening the diversity of the global world.

Chapter 1: Aesthetics in Javanese Culture and Tradition
Chapter 2: Pra Kuta Negara: Pre-Islamic States and Formative Urbanism in Java Indonesia
Chapter 3: Kuta Negara: The Javanese Idea of City/State and its Historical Evolution
Chapter 4: Javanese Way of Living
Chapter 5: Javanese Pride, Patronage, and Prophecy: Political Culture in Indonesia

This illuminating study—which is one of few works published in English from a native point of view—offers new insights into understanding Javanese concepts of aesthetics, and is a profound contribution to the fields of cultural studies, philosophy, political science, architecture, and urban design.