How Long to Read Raiding the Land of the Foreigners

How Long Does it Take to Read Raiding the Land of the Foreigners?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Raiding the Land of the Foreigners by Danilyn Rutherford

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya--Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s, the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians. Taking in the dynamics of Biak social life and the islands' long history of millennial unrest, Rutherford shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Approaching the foreign as a focus of longing in cultural arenas ranging from kinship to Christianity, Biaks participated in Indonesian national institutions without accepting the identities they promoted. Their remarkable response to the Indonesian government (and earlier polities laying claim to western New Guinea) suggests the limits of national identity and modernity, writ large. This is one of the few books reporting on the volatile province of Irian Jaya. It offers a new way of thinking about the nation and its limits--one that moves beyond the conventions of both scholarship and recent journalism. It shows how people can "belong" to a nation yet maintain commitments that fall both short of and beyond the nation state.

How long is Raiding the Land of the Foreigners?

Raiding the Land of the Foreigners by Danilyn Rutherford is 321 pages long, and a total of 80,571 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Raiding the Land of the Foreigners Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Raiding the Land of the Foreigners aloud.

What Reading Level is Raiding the Land of the Foreigners?

Raiding the Land of the Foreigners is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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