In this study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions, domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. The author explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male.
In this study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions, domestic objects used to construct...