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City Performance : Chinese New Year in West Kalimantan
- Author(s):
- Frans Prasetyo (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Cultural Studies, Performance Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies, Visual Anthropology
- Subject(s):
- China, Educaton, Indonesians--Social life and customs, Malays (Asian people)--Social life and customs, Political sociology, Urban geography
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Borneo, Chinese New Year, Cities, Singkawang, urbanism, Chinese studies, Cultural anthropology, Indonesian/Malay culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M61Z2V
- Abstract:
- Since the end of the prohibition of Chinese New Year celebrations, the night sky of towns and cities across Indonesia has been illuminated with fireworks on the eve of Chinese New Year. Most notably, the traditional street parades and accompanying festival on the fifteenth day of the New Year have been growing in size in a number of West Kalimantan towns, in particular in Singkawang, a city on the northwestern coast of the province of West Kalimantan (Borneo). As the following visual ethnography aims to reveal, the Cap Go Meh street parades are legible as drama, ritual theatre, a mode of visual identity-making, and political circus and thus, ultimately, as central to the iconography of the city and its ethnicized communities.
- Notes:
- Material article : Text and photography
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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