Laughing at Leviathan - Danilyn Rutherford (2012)

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Laughing at Leviathan - Danilyn Rutherford (2012)

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Laughing at Leviathan - Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua Danilyn Rutherford
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320 pages | 18 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2012 Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning Paperback: $27.50 ISBN: 9780226731988 Published April 2012 For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In Laughing at Leviathan, Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself—how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford CONTENT: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Looking Like a Fool Part 1. Geographies of Sovereignty Chapter 2. Laughing at Leviathan Chapter 3. Trekking to New Guinea Chapter 4. Waiting for the End in Biak Part 2. Signs of Sovereignty in Motion Chapter 5. Frontiers of the Lingua Franca Chapter 6. Institutional Power and Interpretive Practice Chapter 7. Third-Person Nationalism Chapter 8. The Appeal of Slippery Pronouns Epilogue Chapter 9. Beasts and Sovereigns References Notes Index Purchase on line: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/boo ... 66870.html REVIEWS: Elizabeth Povinelli “At the core of Laughing at Leviathan is a heart-wrenching story: a subtle tracing of the historical disjunctions and disseminations of empire and nationalism that have not led to a new nation in Melanesia. It is a kind of prehistory to a sovereignty that never comes. In writing the prehistory of a form of sovereignty that has neither failed nor succeeded, Danilyn Rutherford also provides a searing metacommentary on sovereignty itself.”--Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science “Laughing at Leviathan probes previously unexplored historical contingencies, ironies, and oddities—and unravels enduring mysteries—haunting colonialism, Christianity, nationalism, sovereignty, and state power in West Papua. Thanks to Rutherford's trademark combination of theoretical sophistication, eagle-eyed ethnographic insight, and irrepressibly zany humor, Laughing at Leviathan offers an eminently worthy companion volume to John Furnivall and Ben Anderson's classic studies. This book will interest, inform, and inspire scholars working across Southeast Asia and far beyond for many years to come.” Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University “Laughing at Leviathan is an important and unusual book; in it Danilyn Rutherford shows the role that audience plays in sovereignty in one of the world's most disputed places—West Papua, or the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea. Rutherford makes use of history and anthropology as well as politics and memory; she glides effortlessly through a forest of languages, perspectives, and possibilities in order to do this work. Hers is nothing if not a multivalent examination of the task at hand. It is also a remarkably acute inquiry, the kind of work that shows not only what can be done, but should be done in troubled global sites. This is scholarship of the highest order.” Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University “Anthropology abounds with often self-serving proclamations about representing the margins but very few anthropologists manage to make marginal places directly address the core questions of the modern world. Danilyn Rutherford’s book is one of those rare examples. In essays densely packed with insights on every page, Rutherford tells a compelling and engaging story of how Christianity, ineffective colonial rule, millenarianism, and nationalist discourse have produced fledgling claims to sovereignty in West Papua. With fine attention to language, performance and continuities and breaks in history, Rutherford foregrounds how every claim to sovereign authority over land and people presupposes, and often co-produces, an audience. However, these audiences do not always see or hear merely what is projected. Deeply conditioned by often violent histories in this contested corner of the Dutch colony and later Indonesia, audiences hear and embrace sovereign performances by making them address their own desires for redemption and transformation. On the way, Rutherford also manages to excavate another long forgotten and inglorious chapter of colonial rule and settler dreams that lasted well into the 1960s. It is rare to find a book that blends insights from linguistic anthropology and anthropology of religion and politics so effortlessly and elegantly in exciting and jargon free prose. Rutherford does not try to flaunt her mastery of this impressive material. She really wants to tell us this riveting story and along the way she changes the reader’s perspective. This is anthropology at its very best.” Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago “Danilyn Rutherford’s witty and respectful study of colonialism and nationalism in Western Papua shows that sovereignty is not so much a matter of domination over people and territory as it is a mediated claim to rule. All such claims must be recognized by audiences—and audiences are always multiply positioned, engaged in many varieties of political communication, from the most global to the most intimate. With this closely argued and beautifully written book, we learn to challenge dominant political claims anew, even as we see a fresh significance in the complex histories of multiply colonized places like contemporary Papua.”
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