Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. MAPS vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A Note on Manuscripts, Transliteration, and Translation xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Seminal Contradictions: Founding the Palace of Surakarta 28
8. 2. Writing Subjects, Writing Authorities: "Java" in the Nineteenth Century 68
9. 3. Prophetic Conclusions: Surakarta in Late Colonial Times 102
10. 4. Origins Revisited: A Circuitous Return to the Present 148
11. 5. On the Practice of Wedding: Ritual Domestication in the New Order 197
12. 6. Village Cleansing, Local Spirits: Traces of Difference 236
13. 7. The New Order's Other "Java": Sacred Sitings, Otherworldly Communications 269
14. Afterword 311
15. Bibliography 319
16. Index 327