Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom) - Softcover

Newberry, Janice

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9781551116891: Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java (Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom)
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ISBN 10: 1551116898 ISBN 13: 9781551116891
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 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.

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1551116898
ISBN 13 
9781551116891
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208
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