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- Banditry in West Java, 1869-1942
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: NUS Press Pte Ltd
summary
Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jarkata) during the late colonial period. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes their working methods and their motives, which at times went beyond simple self-enrichment. The author also explores the world of the robbers' victims, mainly city-dwellers, who viewed the bandits as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient objects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, violence, and magic. The colonial police force in the Dutch East Indies was reformed in the early 1920s, and banditry was subsequently brought under control. However, the bandit tradition lived on in Javanese popular imagination and folk culture, particularly in the tales of Si Pitung, a Robin Hood figure who flourished in nineteenth-century Batavia.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 11-25
- The Setting
- 1 Batavia and the Ommelanden
- pp. 19-43
- The Bandits
- 2 The Economics of Banditry
- pp. 47-62
- 4 Firearms
- pp. 79-91
- 5 Jagos, jimats, and dukuns
- pp. 92-104
- The City-Dwekekrs
- 6 Progress and Degeneration
- pp. 107-119
- 7 From Bandit Novels to Detective Stories
- pp. 120-135
- 8 The Bandit Si Pitung and Popular History
- pp. 136-151
- The State
- 9 The Fight Against Crime
- pp. 155-185
- Concluding Remarks
- pp. 186-191
- Appendices
- pp. 192-211
- Abbreviations
- pp. 242-243
- Bibliography
- pp. 251-275
Additional Information
ISBN
9789971695859
Related ISBN(s)
9789971695026
MARC Record
OCLC
826442857
Pages
292
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-07
Language
English
Open Access
No