Marieke Bloembergen – författare

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and post-colonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as the Buddhist statues from Borobudur temple, that were gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The ways in which the meaning of these objects transformed as they moved away to other sites reveal their role in parallel processes of heritage formation outside Indonesia. Calling attention to the power of the material remains of the past, Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff explore questions of knowledge production, the relationship between heritage and violence, and the role of sites and objects in the creation of national histories.

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people''s encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and post-colonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as the Buddhist statues from Borobudur temple, that were gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The ways in which the meaning of these objects transformed as they moved away to other sites reveal their role in parallel processes of heritage formation outside Indonesia. Calling attention to the power of the material remains of the past, Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff explore questions of knowledge production, the relationship between heritage and violence, and the role of sites and objects in the creation of national histories.

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people''s encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and post-colonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as the Buddhist statues from Borobudur temple, that were gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The ways in which the meaning of these objects transformed as they moved away to other sites reveal their role in parallel processes of heritage formation outside Indonesia. Calling attention to the power of the material remains of the past, Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff explore questions of knowledge production, the relationship between heritage and violence, and the role of sites and objects in the creation of national histories.

This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels. Starting at Hindu-Buddhist, Chinese, Islamic, colonial, and prehistoric heritage sites in Indonesia, the focus is on people's encounters and the knowledge exchange taking place across colonial and post-colonial regimes. Objects are followed as they move from their site of origin to other locations, such as the Buddhist statues from Borobudur temple, that were gifted to King Chulalongkorn of Siam. The ways in which the meaning of these objects transformed as they moved away to other sites reveal their role in parallel processes of heritage formation outside Indonesia. Calling attention to the power of the material remains of the past, Marieke Bloembergen and Martijn Eickhoff explore questions of knowledge production, the relationship between heritage and violence, and the role of sites and objects in the creation of national histories.

Rondom 1900 brachten de wereldtentoonstellingen Frankrijk, Nederland en Nederlands-Indie letterlijk dichter bij elkaar. Terwijl Frankrijk uitblonk in het organiseren van deze prestigieuze wedstrijden in de vooruitgang, maakte Nederland hier goede sier met zijn kolonien. Deze vertoningen van handelswaar, etnografische voorwerpen, tempels en complete Javaanse dorpen inclusief bewoners waren een groot succes in Frankrijk. Ze wakkerden vooral een (welhaast typisch Frans) besef aan van de kunstzinnige inheemse cultuur van Nederlands-Indie. Beroemd is le village javanais, een uiterst populaire Nederlandse inzending op de Exposition Universelle van 1889, waar tussen de vele bezoekers met enige regelmaat de schilder Paul Gauguin, de componist Claude Debussy en de schrijvers Emile Zola en Edmond de Goncourt waren te zien. Debussy hoorde hier in de Javaanse gamelan een contrapunt waarbij hij dat van Palestrina kinderspel noemde. Voor hem was deze een belangrijke inspiratiebron voor enkele van zijn vernieuwende pianocomposities.Deze bundel bevat een selectie uit het veelzijdige materiaal over dit onderwerp, varierend van congresverslagen, foto s, tekeningen en beschrijvingen in catalogi, dagbladen, geillustreerde weekbladen, tentoonstellingsverslagen en gedenkboeken en persoonlijke impressies in dagboeken en brieven. Zowel de loftuitingen als de negatieve anti-imperialistische geluiden komen aan bod.Uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de boekenweek 2003