While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off t...

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1. Verfasser:	Brenner, Suzanne April (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1998
Schlagworte:	Changement social - Indonésie - Surakarta Ethnologie - Indonésie - Surakarta Femmes - Indonésie - Surakarta Inkomensverdeling Sociaal-economische verandering Vrouwen Frau Ethnology > Indonesia > Surakarta Social change > Indonesia > Surakarta Women > Indonesia > Surakarta Sozialer Wandel Surakarta (Indonésie) - Conditions sociales Surakarta (Indonesia) > Social conditions Surakarta
Zusammenfassung:	While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." Against the social, political, and economic developments of late-colonial and postcolonial Java, Brenner describes how an innovative, commercially successful lifestyle became an anachronism in Indonesian society, thereby challenging the idea that tradition invariably gives way to modernity in an evolutionary progression. Brenner's analysis centers on the importance of gender to processes of social transformation.
Beschreibung:	XIII, 301 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0691016933 0691016925