Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
Brunel University London
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Book title
A shadow falls: In the heart of Java
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Faber & Faber Ltd
ISBN of book
9780571235865
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
‘A Shadow Falls’ is a narrative ethnography about the Islamic revival in Java and the challenge it poses to pluralism. It uses techniques from fiction (plotting, characterisation, dialogue, micro-historical depth), without inventing, to offer an inside view of the crisis in Javanese society. In a way impossible using conventional ethnographic reporting, it evokes the dilemmas forced on families in confronting the unravelling of traditional solutions to ideological difference. It makes the case for narrative – shorn of footnotes and obtrusive explanation - as a superior ethnographic resource, the theoretical argument for which is made in output number 2.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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