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Stunning Javanese Fieldwork Experience: How Different Can We Be?

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    Stunning Javanese Fieldwork Experience: How Different Can We Be?

    The questions that were always foremost to me and that all those who love eventually have to face are: "Where are you?" or "Why did you leave me?" or "What went wrong?" or maybe "What hit me?" or "Why me?" Javanese community is a beehive of knowledge transfer, intimacy and shared feeling and a prolonged event in keeping track of the Other. They have one another and know that this is what's important. Java's collective consciousness is so vibrant as to be virtually palpable. I recall musing that when a glass fell in Solo, everyone in Java knew about it before it hit the ground. In the velvety embrace of this throbbing volksgeisttikusmodus vivendi applies the deceptively simple truth that we define our own context with what we do and do not do: our influence on existence is always on its way back to us, embedded in relationships of every kind, and that is Reality.

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