Peter J.M. Nas's research while affiliated with Leiden University and other places
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Publications (8)
Cities are places full of symbols. In the past decades, Indonesian cities have become the cradle of urban symbolism studies. In this article, the author presents the results of these studies. The cities researched differ tremendously, ranging from the national capital to provincial capitals and small towns; some of them, such as Jakarta, are purely...
More and more, anthropologists will be forced to direct their attention towards the mega-urban areas that, increasingly, are dominating societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In this contribution based on the closing lecture delivered at the IUAES Inter- Congress held in Beijing, 28 July 2000, Peter J. M. Nas emphasizes the fundamental social...
This contribution to urban theory determines what concepts developed in the Indonesian context play a role in general urban studies and conversely this study also describes what widely used terms have proven to be valuable in the specific context of Java and the Archipelago. The focus of this literature resear ch is mainly directed towards migratio...
In this paper a spatial analysis is presented of the 1998 riots and the 1965 October events in Indonesia. It shows the dynamic aspect of urban symbolic ecology by describing the meaning of space within the context of these influential social transformations. The comparison aims at a deeper understanding of spatial symbolism.
This article examines the Third of October festivities in the city of Leiden, The Netherlands, held in commemoration of its relief from the Spanish siege in 1574. These festivities are defined as a total urban ritual event and put in a historical perspective. They include all sorts of activities such as the handing out of herring and white bread, t...
This article is an assessment of the recent contribution of Manuel Castells to development sociology. His trilogy on the network society comprises an analysis of present-day fundamental social transformations leading towards an informational society. The appraisal focuses on democracy, poverty, and the devel oping countries.
Urban anthropology consolidated in the 1970s–80s and became an important section of anthropology and urban studies. It embraces four main fields: (a) urban ethnography to highlight urban conditions and lifestyles, (b) the comparative study of cities as wholes, (c) anthropological studies of urbanization as a process of regional, national, and globa...
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... This administrative change diluted the identity of kampungs in several cities, for example in Jakarta and Surabaya, by making them less cohesive and more individualistic (Nas & Boender, 2003;Sihombing, 2004). In Yogyakarta, because of its strong culture and identity (Setiawan, 1998;Sullivan, 1980), the kampung's spirit of working together persisted, both in terms of the RT and the RW. ...
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... Thomas Stodulka, turned into a flâneur in Kupang by the outbreak of pandemics (Nas 2012), is poetically involved in both urban imagery and materiality when he wonders how the emotional and practical behaviour of people changes in their encounter with new infrastructures. As we mentioned, Stodulka analyses signposts, posters, banners, and media reports on the corona pandemic. ...
Reference: Worlding Sites and their Ambiguity
... 6 In fact, these two dimensions can be narrowed down to one (double) question: To what extent does the show enhance the experience of community, both horizontally (among the visitors and with the players) and vertically (with a transcendent reality or the sacred)? 7 Both dimensions are necessary: a high degree of participation is considered characteristic of an event (as opposed to a ceremony), but this event can be either secular (Nas and Roymans 1998) or religious (Roeland 2009). A high degree of transparency indicates that something religious is going on, but that does not necessarily imply liturgy. ...
Reference: The Liquidation of the Church
... Thus, the social memory inscribed in a particular urban place is also associated with the different groups living there and those groups create different landscapes of memory to constitute a cosmopolitan memory of the city when taken as a whole (Srinivas, 2001). Urban commemorative symbols are also multicultural in nature since they are open to informal interventions (Nas, 1998). In this respect, the coupling of memory and place feeds modern identities (Hoelscher & Alderman, 2004) as much as it feeds the identity of being a city resident because the sense of place goes hand in hand with the memories of that place (Othman et al., 2013). ...
