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Music on the Market
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Matthew Isaac Cohen
Published: 29 February 2016
... royal courts military music modernization musik bambu adaptation angklung Chinese new year celebrations clowning Hoo Eng Djie pantun radio tarling heritage Indonesia pasar malam phonograph classical music lagu seriosa jazz Hawai’ian music musik bamboo tarling angklung Music...
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Bali, Cultural Tourism, Modernized Arts
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Matthew Isaac Cohen
Published: 29 February 2016
... pencak silat propaganda wayang wong Denishawn Prof Doorlay’s Tropical Express Revue Company Ramayana advertising wayang kulit cosmopolitanism cultural policy globalization topeng Tropical Museum Indonesia Bali janger arja kebyar kecak film A Dutch defender of the Lombok expedition...
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Performing the Arts of Nationalism
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Matthew Isaac Cohen
Published: 29 February 2016
... language, culture, and history: Indonesia. They excavated, often via Dutch sources, the archaic past of Java and other islands, and staged their research as pageants and plays at nationalist congresses. Journalist and musician Wage Rudolf Soepratman composed anthems for these same gatherings, most...
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The Cultural Center
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Matthew Isaac Cohen
Published: 29 February 2016
... lelucon pasar malam Sukarno tembang Anwar Chairil radio pantun Poedjangga baroe ronggeng Hanifah Abu Ismail Usmar Maya tonil theaters and places of performance cinema traditionalism hybridity modernity national culture Indonesia Japan Cultural Center propaganda sandiwara lelucon...
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Published: 31 March 2013
...This book explores the gendered and racialized ideology of emotions represented in images of beauty by focusing on transnational circulations of beauty ideals throughout different historical periods in Indonesia. More specifically, it explains how transnational circulations of beauty ideals help...
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Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine
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L. Ayu Saraswati
Published: 31 March 2013
...This chapter investigates what kind of whiteness is being marketed in transnational women's magazines in post-Soeharto (post-1998) Indonesia. Using discourse and semiotic analyses, it decodes the meanings of various “signs” in whitening advertisements published in the Indonesian edition...
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Published: 30 June 2013
... Buiten het gareel family romance family narrative Indonesia Achmad Soekarno patriarchy women's movement The psychoanalysts say that nothing is more traumatizing for the young child than his encounters with what is rational. I would personally say that for a man whose only weapon is reason...
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Rattan and a Changing World
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Stephen F. Siebert
Published: 31 January 2012
...This book examines the use, biology, and culture of rattan in Southeast Asia by drawing on the knowledge, practices, and lives of cane collectors and artisans in three villages: San Vicente in Leyte, Philippines (1983–1984); Sungai Tutung in Sumatra, Indonesia (1987–1991); and Moa in Sulawesi...
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Tobaccosis: The Tobacco Syndemic
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Mac Marshall
Published: 31 August 2013
...This concluding chapter asserts that tobacco was an important item of trade during all four periods of globalization in Oceania. Europeans brought it to East and Southeast Asia, and once it was introduced tobacco entered traditional trading networks in what are now Indonesia, the Philippines...
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Desires
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Evelyn Blackwood
Published: 13 September 2010
... global queer movements discourses Halberstam Judith mestiza consciousness sexual subjectivities micro processes in production of Stryker Susan shifting by transgender identities in U S and European discourse transgender subjectivity Indonesia lesbi activists LGBT networks access to Padang...
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Published: 01 October 2008
..., it has come from. The book focuses on schools in five countries: the region's two dominant Muslim-majority countries, Malaysia (60% Muslim) and Indonesia (87.8% Muslim), and three countries with especially restless Muslim minorities, the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia. The remainder of the chapter...
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Published: 31 August 2014
... A postcolonialism statism Covarrubias Miguel Johnson Chalmers Anderson Benedict Hagedorn Jessica imaginationalism Indonesia language race signifiers California Guam Hu deHart Evelyn Latin America Tiananmen Square Asian Studies Asian American Studies American Studies Transpacific migration neo...
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Islamization in Indonesia
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Arskal Salim
Published: 30 September 2008
...This chapter looks at Islamization in Indonesia from both historical and theoretical points of view. The term “Islamization” here is referred to, particularly in the context of a modern nation-state, as a process of certain measures and campaigns that call for the establishment of what are regarded...
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Formation of the Indonesian State
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Arskal Salim
Published: 30 September 2008
...This chapter traces the discourse between the nationalist groups and the Islamic groups on the formation of the Indonesian state in the important meetings of the Investigatory Committee for the Independence of Indonesia (BPUPKI) and the Preparatory Committee for the Independence of Indonesia (PPKI...
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Introduction: The Pearl Frontier
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Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers
Published: 31 May 2015
... began at the time of high imperialism when this rich source of maritime wealth was discovered in the seas of the Pearl Frontier that lay between tropical north Australia and the islands of eastern Indonesia. The industry helped establish the new ports of Broome, Darwin and Thursday Island, which...
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Crossing Borders: Indonesian Experience with Local Conflict Resolution
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Frans deJalong and Muhadi Sugiono
Published: 31 January 2011
...This chapter examines two of Indonesia's most noted traditional conflict resolution methods in the context of recent ethnoreligious conflicts. It shows that Pela Gandong of Ambon and Motambu Tana of Poso are ties of brotherhood across religious and ethnic differences that have emerged over...
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Indonesian White Beauty: Spatializing Race and Racializing Spatial Tropes
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L. Ayu Saraswati
Published: 31 March 2013
...This chapter examines how space and its spatial tropes become “imperative” signifiers for people's subjectivity, particularly at moments of circulations and encounters across different geographical boundaries. Drawing on beauty advertisements published in women's magazines after Indonesia gained...
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Malu: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty
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L. Ayu Saraswati
Published: 31 March 2013
... skin whitening products advertisements for Unilever Africans Burke Timothy Etcoff Nancy ethnic groups in Indonesia Glenn Evelyn Pierre Jemima skin color South Africa Thomas Lynn women Zimbabwe skin whitening products used in affect affective vocabularies Geertz Clifford gendered...
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The History of a Sulawesi Rattan Village
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Stephen F. Siebert
Published: 31 January 2012
...This chapter tells the history of a rattan village called Moa, nestled between steep forested ridges and a cascading river in the mountains of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Moa is home to approximately seventy-two households that belong to an ethnolinguistic group known as the Uma. The livelihoods...
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The Shophouse and the Chinese
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Abidin Kusno
Published: 30 November 2013
...This chapter shows how the ruko —a Chinese commercial establishment—in its various expressions and transformations over time, engages in the history, culture, and politics of thriving urban environments in Indonesia. There have been many negative accounts on the presence...