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power and change in an Indonesian government office
Author(s) -
CONKLING ROBERT
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1984.11.2.02a00030
Subject(s) - indonesian , power (physics) , indonesian government , politics , government (linguistics) , sociology , symbolic power , epistemology , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
A discussion of the concept of power provides the theoretical basis for a semantic analysis of a case in which power changes hands. It is argued that a relationship of power presumes the capacity of ideas to require submission and that changes of power accompany changes in actors' conceptions of reality. The semantic analysis points to a pan‐Indonesian conception of how power is created and destroyed . [power, political anthropology, symbolic analysis, complex organizations, Indonesia]