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SundaneseAny member of the highland people of western Java, Indon., distinguished from the Javanese mainly by their language and their strict adherence to Islam. First mentioned in the 8th century AD, they are one of the three principal ethnic groups on the island. They once followed Mahayana Buddhism but converted to Islam in the 16th century under the influence of Muslim trade. Sundanese villages are ruled by a headman and a council of elders. Marriage, birth, and death ceremonies conform closely to the Javanese pattern but are often mixed with Hindu elements. Modern developments have tended to erase differences between the Sundanese and other peoples of Java. The Sundanese number about 26 million. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The recorded performances of these superstars are then used to demonstrate how they, though courted by the New Order government and constrained to act as "information officers" for government programmes and ideologies, nonetheless were also sensitive to Sundanese audiences' desires for entertainment and criticism of the same government institutions and figures who often commissioned wayang golek performances. Wessing's paper deals more closely with an example from Sunda (West Java) of such a "confrontation of cosmologies," tracing both the integration of Islamic features into the orientations of Sundanese villages, and the more current denigration of indigenous cosmological ideas by Islamic reformists, especially from Muhammadiyah. At least that is what it would seem, given that the same story circulated in Bandung during the mid-1990s (referring instead to Sundanese country bumpkins). |
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