John Pemberton (anthropologist)

John Pemberton is an associate professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University. Prior to joining the faculty at Columbia, Pemberton taught at the University of Washington.
Java
His research interest has primarily been focused on Indonesia and the intersections between history and anthropology. His fieldwork base was in Surakarta in Central Java in the early 1990s at a time when fieldwork was particularly difficult for foreign researchers. In the 1980s and 1990s foreign researchers had been accessing Java more regularly than in previous decades - with Pemberton and fellow Cornell associates tending to focus upon Solo (Surakarta) and its surrounding localities.
His 1994 On the Subject of "Java" was published by Cornell University Press and explores the relationship between culture and politics in Java. and was unique in its appraisal of the history of Surakarta, and Java utilising commentary regarding...