Benedict R. O’G. Anderson, 1936–2015: A Bibliography

English-language Publications

Monographs

Some Aspects of Indonesian Politics under the Japanese Occupation: 1944–1945. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (pub. 29), 1961.

Mythology and the Tolerance of the Javanese. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project (pub. 37), 1965.

“The Pemuda Revolution: Indonesian Politics, 1945–1946.” PhD thesis, Cornell University, 1967.

with Ruth T. McVey, asst. Frederick P. Bunnell. A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965, Coup in Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Interim Reports (pub. 52), 1971; and London: Equinox Publishing, 2009.

Java in a Time of Revolution: Occupation and Resistance, 1944–1946. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972; and London: Equinox Publishing, 2006.

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso Books, 1983. Revised and expanded in 1991 and 2006.

Language and Power: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.

The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World. London: Verso, 1998.

with Christopher Prendergast. Debating World Literature. London: Verso, 2004.

Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. London: Verso, 2005. Republished as The Age of Globalization: Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination. London: Verso, 2013.

Why Counting Counts: A Study of Forms of Consciousness and Problems of Language in Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University, 2008.

The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand. New York: Seagull Books, 2012.

Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam over Forty Years. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2014.

A Life beyond Boundaries: A Memoir. London: Verso, 2016.

Edited volumes

with Mitsuo Nakamura and Mohammad Slamet. Religion and Social Ethos in Indonesia. Clayton: Monash University, 1977.

Violence and the State in Suharto’s Indonesia. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2000.

with Audrey Kahin. Interpreting Indonesian Politics: Thirteen Contributions to the Debate. Ithaca: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Interim Reports (pub. 62), 1982; and London: Equinox Publishing, 2009.

ed. and trans. with Ruchira C. Mendiones. In the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 1985.

with Christopher John Baker and Craig J. Reynolds. Pen & Sail. Silkworm Books, 2005.

Book chapters

“Japan the Light of Asia,” in Southeast Asia in World War II: Four Essays, ed. Josef Silverstein. New Haven: Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, 1966.

“The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture,” in Culture and Politics in Indonesia, ed. Clair Holt, 1–69. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972.

“The Last Picture Show: Wayang Bèbèr,” in Proceedings, Conference on Modern Indonesian Literature, ed. Jean Taylor et al., 33–81. Madison: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1974.

“Millenarianism and the Saminist Movement,” in Religion and Social Ethos in Indonesia, ed. Benedict R. O’G. Anderson, Mitsuo Nakamura, and Mohammad Slamet, 48–61. Clayton: Monash University, 1977.

“Religion and Politics in Indonesia since Independence,” in Religion and Social Ethos in Indonesia, ed. Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson, Mitsuo Nakamura, and Mohammad Slamet, 21–32. Clayton: Monash University, 1977.

“Cartoons and Monuments: The Evolution of Political Communication under the New Order,” in Political Power and Communications in Indonesia, ed. Karl D. Jackson and Lucian W. Pye, 282–321. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

“Studies of the Thai State: The State of Thai Studies,” in The Study of Thailand: Analysis of Knowledges, Approaches, and Prospects in Anthropology, Art, History, Economics, and Political Science, ed. Eliezer B. Ayal, 193–247. Athens: Ohio State University Center for International Studies, 1978.

“A Time of Darkness and a Time of Light: Transposition in Early Indonesian Nationalist Thought,” in Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia, ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, ed. Anthony Reid and David Marr, 219–48. Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books, 1979.

“Indonesia and East Timor Critique,” in Lawyers’ Committee for International Human Rights, A Critique of the United States Department of State’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1979. 271–81. New York: LCIHR, 1980.

“Statement Delivered to the Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on East Timor, October 20, 1980,” in East Timor: Five Years after the Indonesian Invasion, ed. Jason Clay, 29–34. Cambridge: Cultural...