Mark R. Woodward is an American academic. He is known for his work ''Islam in Java'', published in 1989.
He conducted ethnographic research in the
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by Hamengkubuwono, a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an importan ...
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
region in the
New Order New Order may refer to:
Politics
* ''L'Ordine Nuovo'' (''The New Order''), a socialist newspaper edited by Antonio Gramsci in the early 1920s
* ''New Order in East Asia'', propaganda term for Japanese-dominated East Asia announced by Japanese ...
era.
Critical response
''Islam in Java'' elicited a range of responses due to its diverging from
Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades&n ...
's observations of almost 30 years before in
East Java
East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...
.
[Nakamura Mitsuo (1990) Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 717-719]
References
Publications
* Woodward, Mark R. (1989) ''Islam in Java : normative piety and mysticism in the sultanate of Yogyakarta'' University of Arizona Press, Tucson: Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies ; no. 45. (alk. paper)
* Suwarno, Peter (1999) ''Dictionary of Javanese proverbs and idiomatic expressions'' with a foreword by Mark R. Woodward Yogyakarta, Indonesia : Gadjah Mada University Press.
* Woodward, Mark R. (2010) ''Java, Indonesia and Islam''.
Springer
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Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
.
* Lukens-Bull, Ronald and Mark Woodward (2011) “Goliath and David in Gaza: Indonesian myth-building and conflict as a cultural system.” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life 5:1-17
External links
Arizona State University Webpage for Woodard
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American anthropologists