A SHADOW FALLS: IN THE HEART OF JAVA

Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B39746

English Summary/英文概要： The story of one village in the largest Muslim nation in the world.

Andrew Beatty lived with his family for two and a half years in a village in East Java. When he arrived, he was entranced by a strange and sensual way of life, an unusual tolerance of diversity.

Mysticism, Islamic piety and animism co-existed peacefully; the ancient traditions of the shadow play, of spirit beliefs and were-tigers seemed set to endure. Java appeared a model for our strife-ridden world, a recipe for multiculturalism.

But a harsh and puritanical Islamism, fed by modern uncertainties, was driving young women to wear the veil and young men to renounce the old rituals. The mosque loudspeakers grew strident, cultural boundaries sharpened. As a wave of witch-killings shook the countryside, Beatty and his family began to feel like vulnerable outsiders.

Set among Java’s rice fields and volcanoes, this is the story of how one of the biggest issues of our time plays out in ordinary lives.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这个故事发生在世界上最大的穆斯林国家的一个村庄里。
Andrew Beatty和家人一起住在东爪洼有两年半的时间了。他到达这个地方的时候，他被这里奇怪又淫乱的生活所吸引了，这里对文化差异性有特别大的容忍度。
神秘主义、对伊斯兰教的信仰和万物幽灵论和平地存在于同一个地方；古典的皮影戏、对灵魂的信仰和虎人都能存在于此。爪哇对于我们这个充满争斗的世界来说就像是最好的模范，是多元文化最好的实现地。
但是残酷的伊斯兰教，逼迫年轻妇女头戴面纱、让年轻男子放弃古老的仪式。清真寺的扩音喇叭里传出刺耳的声音，文化冲突变得尖锐起来。一波巫术杀戮冲击着边境，Beatty和他的家人开始被卷入冲突带来的动乱。
故事就发生在爪哇的土地和火山地区，这个故事告诉我们这个时代最大的问题是如何影响普通百姓的。(兼职翻译-LN)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Beatty是国际知名的人类学家，他在印度尼西亚工作了五年。在成为人类学家之前，他在亚洲待了三年。他现在在布鲁内尔大学教书，和墨西哥妻子还有两个孩子住在牛津附近。

Andrew Beatty is an internationally-respected anthropologist, who has spent five years in Indonesia. Before he became an anthropologist he spent another three years travelling in Asia. He teaches at Brunel University and lives near Oxford with his wife, who is from Mexico, and their two children.

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