Patricia Spyer

The Memory of Trade

Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island

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Produktbeschreibung

"With profound insight, empathy, and theoretical sophistication, Patricia Spyer traces out the complex intertwinings among identity, global commerce, local ritual, and national politics. This book is a masterful demonstration of how much of modernity's paradoxes, romance, and uncanny displacements best come into sight when viewed from the perspective of the supposed margins."--Webb Keane, author of "Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324416
• ISBN-10: 0822324415
• Artikelnr.: 22106380

Autorenporträt

Patricia Spyer is a Lecturer at the Research Centre Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
Preface ix
A Note on Language, Translation and Orthography xxiii
1 Introduction: Runaway Topographies 1
2 The Legless Paradise 41
3 The Great Ship 66
4 Mothers of Pearl 107
5 Prow and Stern 161
6 The Cassowary's Play 198
7 The Women's Share 254
8 Epilogue: Sweet Memories from Aru 288
Notes 293
Works Cited 329