Women's status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture. In some ways, women have high status and broad access to resources, but other situations suggest that Javanese women lack real power and autonomy. Javanese women have major responsibilities in supporting their families and controlling household finances. They may also own and manage their own property. Yet these symbols and potential sources of independence and influence are determined by a culturally prescribed, state-reinforced, patriarchal gender ideology that limits women's autonomy....
Women's status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture. In some ways, women have high status and broad ...
Half of Indonesia s massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian Revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable returns for peasant farmers. But fifty years later, the law s objectives of social justice have not been achieved. "Land for the People "provides a comprehensive look at land conflict and agrarian reform throughout Indonesia s recent history, from the roots of land conflicts in the...
Half of Indonesia s massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains...
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters that comprise a family saga of revolution, persistence, and, ultimately, vindication, even as easy resolution eluded their struggles.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at...
"Wayang kulit, " or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The "dalang, " or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and perform in this traditionally male role, an innovation that has triggered resistance and controversy.
"Wayang kulit, " or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performan...
"Wayang kulit, " or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The "dalang, " or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and perform in this traditionally male role, an innovation that has triggered resistance and controversy.
"Wayang kulit, " or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performan...
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, David Lowenthal wrote in "The Past is a Foreign Country." It is on this fraught foundation that Fred Lanzing builds his memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists in the East Indies during the World War II.
Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember, Davi...
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau.
Grounded in rich ethnographic data and supplemented with online audiovisual materials, Gongs and Pop Songs is the first study to chronicle the history and...
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at ...
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition from Sumatra called talempong, long associated with people who identify themselves as Minangkabau.
Grounded in rich ethnographic data and supplemented with online audiovisual materials, Gongs and Pop Songs is the first study to chronicle the history and...
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at ...
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for "Vi't Nam News, " Ha N?i's English-language newspaper, H?u Ng?c charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the massive "Wandering through Vietnamese Culture." With "Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, " Ohio University Press presents a selection from these many treasures, which are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country s rich history, culture, and...
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for "Vi't Nam News, " Ha N?i's English-language newspaper, H?u Ng?c charmed and invigorated an internatio...
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for "Vi't Nam News, " Ha N?i's English-language newspaper, H?u Ng?c charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the massive "Wandering through Vietnamese Culture." With "Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, " Ohio University Press presents a selection from these many treasures, which are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country s rich history, culture, and...
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for "Vi't Nam News, " Ha N?i's English-language newspaper, H?u Ng?c charmed and invigorated an internatio...
