Back Door Java: State Formation And the Domestic in Working Class Java - Couverture souple

Newberry, Janice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551116898 ISBN 13 : 9781551116891

Editeur : Broadview Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local ideas of community cooperation and support, but also on the Indonesian government's use of women as unpaid social workers. Consequently, women are a pivotal point in both state-sponsored programs of domesticity and in the local practice of community exchange managed from individual houses. Back Door Java explores the everyday lives of ordinary urban Javanese from a new perspective on domestic space and the state. Using rich ethnographic description of a neighbourhood in Central Java, Newberry illuminates the ways in which state rule is intimately connected to the household and the community.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jan Newberry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551116898
• ISBN 13: 9781551116891
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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