Recherches sur l'histoire des mentalites a java : societe insulaire ou carrefour maritime?
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Abstract EN:
This study is aimed at presenting a comprehensive history of java, the most important island of the malay archipelago (with a population of more than 90 millions in 1989) and at analysing its formative elements. The first part deals with the impact of westernization ("three centuries of colonisation") and its limits. The second part focusses on asiatic, mainly islamic and chinese networks. The investigation of malay sources allows us to trace the ideological changes which occured during the 16th and 17th centuries (emergence of a certain modernity); the study of overseas chinese communities on the other hand allows us to unveil the importance of technological transfers. The third part, based on both epigraphical material and javanese literature, analyses the deepest stratum, i. E. The agrarian kingdoms which developed from the 9th c. Onwards and originated the present indonesian state. Java consequently appears both as the meeting point of various influences (indian, chinese, islamic, european) and as the cradle of a peculiar civilisation which federates the outside islands and coordinates them within a wide political framework. The text is illustrated with 50 maps and 88 photos.
Abstract FR:
L'etude envisage dans sa globalite l'histoire de java, l'ile la plus importante de l'archipel insulindien (plus de 90 millions d'habitants en 1989), et cherche a en analyser les elements formateurs. La premiere partie porte sur les effets de l'occidentalisation ("trois siecles de colonisation"), en fait relativement limites. La seconde partie est consacree aux reseaux asiatiques, surtout musulmans et chinois; l'examen des sources malaises permet de retracer les mutations mentales des xvie et xviie s. (emergence d'une certaine modernite) et l'etude de communautes chinoises permet de mettre en evidence d'importants transferts techniques. La troisieme partie, fondee sur les textes epigraphiques et litteraires javanais, analyse la strate la plus profonde, celle des royaumes agraires, crees a partir du ixe s. Et dont les principes sont a l'origine de l'etat indonesien d'aujourd'hui. Carrefour d'influences lointaines (indienne, chinoise, islamique et europeenne), java est en meme temps le lieu d'elaboration d'une ideologie particuliere qui a fini par federer les autres iles et les associer a un grand ensemble politique. L'ouvrage est accompagne de 50 cartes et plans et de 88 illustrations.