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Naming the Witch explores the recent series of witchcraft accusations and killings in East Java, which spread as the Suharto regime slipped into crisis and then fell. After many years of ethnographic work focusing on the origins and nature of violence in Indonesia, Siegel came to the conclusion that previous anthropological explanations of witchcraft and magic, mostly based on sociological conceptions but also including the work of E.E. Evans-Pritchard...
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Explores the social and economic impact of political problems and the economic crisis during the late 1990s. Investigates political developments in east Timor and Indonesia and examines relations between Indonesia and Australia. Analyses the effects of the crises on poverty, the environment and livelihoods, civil society and legal institutions and Islam and politics.
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Australasia has long been the professional beat of author-journalist Maslyn Williams, and this book is a direct product of that expert knowledge, reinforced by four months of travel in Indonesia in 1964 [during a period of economic troubles just before the coup of 1965]. It is one of the few thoroughgoing yet popular profiles of that yeasty, sprawling, disturbing land available to American readers. In Mr. Williams' journeys, Jakarta, the capital,...
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"Endangered peoples of Southeast and East Asia: struggles to survive and thrive introduces 14 endangered cultures, from the Kubu of Central Sumatra in Indonesia to the Ainu of Japan. The most pressing issues of these marginalized groups - such as the impact of tourism, prohibition against whaling, or dislocation due to nuclear testing - are brought to light by anthropologists based on their own extensive field work. The cultural and historical information...
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"The book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok, and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent from typical notions of manhood and masculinity. For gender studies and Southeast Asian studies, it provides a 'queer reading' of Walter Spies, a gay German...
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