Social control from below

Reviewed publication:
Herriman, N. 2012. The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia, New Haven: Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University. 172 pages. ISBN: 9780938692980 (paperback)

In The Entangled State: Sorcery, State Control, and Violence in Indonesia, Nicholas Herriman draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in East Java and as a result calls into question the common scholarly understanding of the Indonesian state.

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