Joel Kahn

Constituting the Minangkabau

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780854963164
• ISBN-10: 0854963162
• Artikelnr.: 21177402

Autorenporträt

Joel S Kahn Professor of Anthropology and Sociology,La Trobe University

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: The Interpretation of Minangkabau Culture: Traditions of
Modernity of Modernist Traditions? - Peasantization and Class Formation in
Minangkabau Villages - The Constitution of Minangkabau in Colonial
Discourse - Nationalism, Modernism, and Neotraditionalism: Discursive
Transformation in Twentieth - Century Minangkabau Culture - Images of
Tradition: the Selective Constitution of Minangkabau Culture - State
Formation in Colonial Indonesia: Bureaucratization and Land Alienation and
the Constitution of Minangkabau's Southern Frontier in the 1920s - The
Hypertrophic Modern State, Culture and the Peasantry in Colonial
Indonesia.1993 314pp.