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The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series) - Hardcover
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This book studies the way state officials interacted with local residents of an Indonesian
village with regard to problems created by sorcery. Local residents who wished to be rid of alleged sorcerers, sometimes killed them. This presented a conundrum for sympathetic state officials, who were constrained by the rule of law. Prevailing models of state-society interaction in Indonesia proved inadequate to describe the response to this conundrum, and Herriman's study outlines a different model.
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Nicholas Herriman lectures in anthropology, Southeast Asian history, and Indonesian language, culture, and politics. His doctoral thesis was awarded Best Thesis by the Australian Anthropological Society in 2008.
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The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia (Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series)
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Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven, 2012
ISBN 10: 0938692992
ISBN 13: 9780938692997
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Unread book in pristine condition. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Issued without dust jacket. For one year, Nicholas Herriman lived in a village in Indonesia, studying the way state officials interacted with local residents. He did so by looking at the problems created by sorcery. Local residents wished to be rid of alleged sorcerers, and sometimes even killed them. This presented a conundrum for state officials, who, generally sympathizing with the plight of the majority of local residents, were constrained by the rule of law. This book describes how state officials responded to the conundrum. Prevailing models of state-society interaction in Indonesia proved inadequate to describe the response, so Herriman's study outlines a different model. Seller Inventory # ABE-1785688693034