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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9781551116891
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95812579
Product Key Features
Author
Janice Newberry
Publication Name
Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
280g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Janice Newberry
Series Title
Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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