Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper’s theme is “nationalism.” Steedly’s ethnography based on her fieldwork experience in the 1980s reveals Indonesians’ quiet forms of resistance and uncertainty in ways that resonate with the author’s own family’s relationship to the state. An atmosphere of coercion, violence, and abuse of power is palpably felt in Steedly’s work. The Karo Batak she wrote about did not so much openly resist as live at an oblique angle to the authoritarian regime. In the larger scheme of “typical” Indonesian studies, Steedly’s interest in North Sumatra was unique. Her work there complicated the predominant idea of Indonesian nationalism and its Java-centric orientation in three key ways. First, by how the Karo understood Indonesia and nationalism differently from the elite, male, Javanese nationalists who came to define Indonesian nationalism. Second, by how she treated the Karo themselves as an epistemic community, as historical actors who articulated what it means to be part of a supralocal entity called Indonesia. And third, by her complicated conceptualization of postcoloniality as an ongoing force. Following Steedly’s lead, Indonesia still offers the possibility to rethink nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism in new ways.
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Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper’s theme is “narrative.” Throughout all of Steedly’s work one can see her consistent attention to meaning, humanity, and story. This article recalls her master’s thesis, a masterpiece of fieldwork, writing, and compassion that foreshadows the brilliance of her later books on Indonesia. Displaying her skill as an ethnographic writer with a close eye to detail, Steedly allows her subject’s voice to resound in her text as a source of both testimony and commentary. Steedly’s analysis of her subject’s context, content, and structure reflects a distinctive and eclectic approach to theory and ethnography, for example, by drawing on anthropological investigations of symbols and classification systems while avoiding disrespectful studies and predictable comparisons. Her earliest work demonstrated her gift for combining sensitive, detailed description with broader symbolic analysis; and a curiosity for the invisible, an interest in documentation, and a knack for conveying details even when they did not conform to the story. These later came to be among the theoretical hallmarks for which she will be remembered.
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{"title":"Illiberal Democracy in Indonesia: The Ideology of the Family State by David Bourchier (review)","authors":"Jeffrey A. Winters","doi":"10.1353/ind.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81910179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Mary Steedly’s “Eating an Elephant” is a previously unpublished paper that Steedly originally delivered as a lecture. This essay offers insight into her ethnographic praxis as an observer, listener, and writer, making it the perfect prelude to the keyword essays in this memorial collection that constitute a multi-voiced appreciation of Steedly by her colleagues and students. “Eating an Elephant” demonstrates Steedly’s extraordinary ability to draw rich insights from apparently insignificant, yet “telltale,” details. The essay showcases Steedly’s skill as a crafter of narratives, both distinctively authored and characteristically replete with other people’s voices. In its reference to Orwell’s autobiographical short story “Shooting an Elephant,” it reflects Steedly’s openness to literature as a source of insight and inspiration. Finally, it displays her sense of humor and her refusal to elevate the story of Indonesia’s independence struggle from its grounding in mud, hunger, death, confusion, and absurdity.
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Abstract:This essay introduces the fifteen pieces in this volume that honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly—a collection that emphasizes her ground-breaking contributions to anthropology, feminist studies, and the study of Indonesia. Many of the pieces included here originated as oral presentations by Steedly’s colleagues and students at two memorial events. Not surprisingly, then, these brief expository essays include reminiscences by people who were close to her. As the contributors make clear, Steedly’s deep and generative commitment to interlocutors, students, and colleagues demands to be acknowledged in its own right. Taken as a whole, this multivocal tribute reflects and reaffirms a central conviction of Steedly’s entire body of work, namely, that “voices are never singular, meaning is always negotiated, and there is room in any story for someone else’s speaking.”
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Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper’s theme is “spirits,” and reflects on how Steedly wove stories of encounters with spirits and mediums into an intricate matrix, thus revealing a space of a particular narrative experience. Each encounter pushes someone out of a comfort zone, thereby destabilizing a recognized identity, revealing the fragility of a boundary (“border between two worlds”), or undermining confidence in one’s understanding of something. While Steedly’s projects on spirit mediums and Indonesian supernaturalism are different and separated by twenty years, they complement each other. Attention to the supernatural offered her an unusual lens on the twists and turns of Indonesia’s historical transformation from a modernizing postcolonial nation to the mass-media-saturated, post-New Order era.
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Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper’s theme is “audience” and considers Steedly’s two-part charge of “how to audience.” First, look for stories that do not follow the script, ones that exist beyond the mainstream. Such stories are not neat and do not offer consistency and closure. They do not deliver a lesson or moral, but their very messiness, their uncorralled excess, carries potent possibilities. Steedly’s second charge is to attend to the interactive sociality of narration by assuming the roles of both speaker and listener: ”… how do we convince our audiences that our stories are compelling?” All of us are not just tellers of stories, our own and those of others. We are the hearers of those stories, and it is in our listening that the worldmaking potential of stories can flourish.
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Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper's theme is "memory." Steedly described memories as "densely layered, sometimes conflictual negotiations with the passage of time." According to her, memories do not serve to complete or set straight a historical record—and in her work she did not try to locate authentic, oppositional voices or to excavate evidence by which to contest official historical accounts. She refused a naïve and instrumentalist approach to memory as a source of subaltern truths to be tapped. Experiences are always already dressed in narratives that anticipate and prefigure them, cast through and against iconic figures and dominant tropes, and reworked in dialogue with other stories and subsequent occurrences. Memories have specific tellers and tellings, but they never belong, finally, to a single speaker or moment. What matters, then, Steedly wrote, is "not what really happened … but rather why [something came] to be recalled and retold in one particular way and not another … and what might be at stake" in that particular time and manner of telling.
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{"title":"Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901–1942 by Nobuto Yamamoto (review)","authors":"J. Ingleson","doi":"10.1353/ind.2020.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2020.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41794,"journal":{"name":"Internetworking Indonesia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84778404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay is one of more than a dozen in this volume to honor the late Mary Margaret Steedly. The paper's theme is "haunting." Steedly's writings are filled with stories of spirits—in Karoland during the New Order's core years, as well as in Indonesian horror films in the post-Suharto Reformasi years. There are the keramat of Mount Sibayak and the spirits of the dead. Steedly views spirit figures as part of the everyday world—her interest is not whether they exist, but rather what Indonesians do about them. She takes up analysis in terms of visibility and invisibility, or, more specifically, transparency and apparition. It is in the context of a suppressed national history that the ghosts of the New Order find a presence in popular Indonesian horror films—possibly, an association of revenge with the unexplained and unmourned dead remains present until today in talk about the dangers of revisiting Indonesia's violent history. It is this association that begins to point back to Steedly's experiences of ghosts and questions of vengefulness decades earlier in her Karo work. She did not engage theories of haunting explicitly, but her writings suggest important directions for placing her work in conversation with recent writings on hauntology.
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