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Performing Power Performing Power Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia • Arnout van der Meer Southeast Asia Program Publications an imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London Southeast Asia Program Publications Editorial Board Mahinder Kingra Chiara Formichi (ex officio) Tamara Loos Thak Chaloemtiarana Andrew Willford Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. First published 2020 by Cornell University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Meer, Arnout van der, 1980– author. Title: Performing power: cultural hegemony, identity, and resistance in colonial Indonesia / Arnout van der Meer. Description: Ithaca, [New York]: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020046264 (print) | LCCN 2020046265 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501758577 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501758584 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501758591 (epub) | ISBN 9781501758607 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Politics and culture—Indonesia—Java—History—19th century. | Politics and culture—Indonesia—Java—History—20th century. | Group identity—Indonesia—Java—History—19th century. | Group identity—Indonesia—Java—History—20th century. | Indonesia—Politics and government—1798–1942. | Java (Indonesia)—Social life and customs—19th century. | Java (Indonesia)—Social life and customs—20th century. Classification: LCC DS625.M44 2020 (print) | LCC DS625 (ebook) | DDC 959.8/20223—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046264 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020046265 Cover image: Resident P. Sijthoff of Semarang with his servant holding his gilded payung, 1904. Source: Leiden University Library, Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 2603. This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. With the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Pilot uses cutting-edge publishing technology to produce open access digital editions of high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs from leading university presses. Free digital editions can be downloaded from: Books at JSTOR, EBSCO, Hathi Trust, Internet Archive, OAPEN, Project MUSE, and many other open repositories. While the digital edition is free to download, read, and share, the book is under copyright and covered by the following Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consult www.creativecommons.org if you have questions about your rights to reuse the material in this book. When you cite the book, please include the following URL for its Digital Object Identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.7298/h0cn-4s91 We are eager to learn more about how you discovered this title and how you are using it. We hope you will spend a few minutes answering a couple of questions at this url: https://www.longleafservices.org/shmp-survey/ More information about the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot can be found at https://www.longleafservices.org. For Amelie and Sofie • Contents Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii A Note on Spelling and Terms xvii Introduction The Performance of Power 1 Chapter 1 Setting the Stage: The Javanization of Colonial Authority in the Nineteenth Century 19 Chapter 2 “Sweet was the Dream, Bitter the Awakening”: The Contested Implementation of the Ethical Policy, 1901 –1913 48 Chapter 3 Disrupting the Colonial Performance: The Hormat Circular of 1913 and the National Awakening 77 Chapter 4 Contesting Sartorial Hierarchies: From Ethnic Stereotypes to National Dress 111 Chapter 5 East Is East, and West Is West: Forging Modern Identities 145 Chapter 6 Staging Colonial Modernity: Hegemony, Fairs, and the Indonesian Middle Classes 175

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