Ideologies of Authority

State and Society in Nineteenth-Century Sarawak

Authors

  • J. H. Walker University of New South Wales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/arsr.2005.18.2.151

Abstract

The focus of this study is the way in which elites and the people they rule engage to create, resist or amend ideologies of power and perceptions of legitimacy. It examines as a detailed case study the differences in the ways in which the first and second Rajahs of Sarawak, James and Charles Brooke, responded to the ritual concerns of the people they sought and claimed to govern, and the consequences of those differences for the manner in which they attempted to accumulate and enact authority.

Author Biography

  • J. H. Walker, University of New South Wales
    J.H. Walker teaches politics at the UNSW@ADFA. He is the author of Power and Process: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak (Sydney: Allen & Unwin; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002).

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Published

2005-02-05

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2005): Special Issue: Southeast Asian Religions/Guest Editor: Mary Hawkins

Section

Articles

License

Equinox Publishing Ltd.

How to Cite

Walker, J. H. (2005). Ideologies of Authority: State and Society in Nineteenth-Century Sarawak. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 18(2), 151-177. https://doi.org/10.1558/arsr.2005.18.2.151