Oral Traditions and Local Authority: Viewing the Indonesian Revolution through a Cultural Lens.
Most accounts of the Indonesian revolution in South Sulawesi have focused on the two groups fighting for power: the Republic of Indonesia as a new nation-state and the Dutch, who wanted to regain control. What is absent from this way of viewing history are the views of local elites, who wanted to re...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 292 - 310 |
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Jun2025
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