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spectacle and more modest in aim, with only a minimal honouring of affines. It can serve as a stopgap, postponing a major feast, or it can be a first feast. Case study As an example let us examine the fatome of Ama Ujia of Sifalago, a feast Ovasa: Feasts of Merit in Nias . 227 held to inaugurate his new

spectacle in itself’, as Peleggi (2005:264) argues is true of monumentalized colonial hotels in Southeast Asia, opened officials’ eyes to the potential to ‘tap into the high-end segment of the international tourism market’, as neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia had discovered before. This prospect made up

perennialism; (2) the state and the market; and (3) the role of spectacle. In each of these domains scholars address questions and identify problems that are relevant for theorizing informal sovereignties everywhere. I will discuss each in turn. Patterns of Perennialism When one compares work

negotiations, to the public spectacle of courtroom dramas, including the trials of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the Egyptian revolutionary Ahmed ʿUrabi, to visual representations of legal authority in portraits of Muslim sovereigns. In the final chapter of the book, Hussin brings her

Those who are interested in studies on contemporary popular religion in Vietnam might be familiar with the vivid spectacle of the Vietnamese spirit world. The account of spirit mediumship is especially appealing in terms of performance and materiality. Recent anthropological research has

, politics, and business in Indonesia. His creative work consisted of one novel, Stamboel selebritas (The celebrity spectacle, 2004b), and various volumes of short stories, including Perempuan yang gagal jadi kelelawar (The woman who failed to become a cave bat, 2013b, published posthumously), Dari mana

ability to project authority through symbolism. In his study of the nineteenth-century Balinese state, the negara , Geertz argued that rituals and spectacle constituted the core of the polity that was based on the ‘idea that by providing a model […] a faultless image of civilized existence, the court

antiquatedness, backwardness, tradition, and non-Islamic qualities. Modernity had become such a core element of Indonesian Islamic self-reflection that localized Islamic genres were to be re-assigned the function of spectacle in place of their previous function as ritual. This process is called ‘desacralization