Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Village and the Marketplace: the Moral Structure of a Minangkabau City
2. Being Minangkabau: Imagining Adat, Islam, and Ethnic Character
3. The Awak People: The Moral Aesthetics of Social Unity
4. Living with the Devil: Pure Selves and a Corrupting World
5. Fashioning the Paribadi: Indirection and Spaces of the Personal
6. Being Muslim Subjects: Essential Tensions and the Promise of Transcendence
Coda Subjective Tensions, Flourishing, and Multidimensional Selves
Notes
References
Index
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