Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia [1 ed.] 9780367716868, 0854963162, 9780854963164, 0367716860

Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia 9781474214117

This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism i

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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia 9789048523382

How contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through the aid of photography.

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Kamus Minangkabau-Indonesia

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Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan 9780824864101

Since the mid-1990s Taiwanese artists have been responsible for shaping much of the international contemporary art scene

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Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia 9780824855598

Indonesia, with its mix of ethnic cultures, cosmopolitan ethos, and strong national ideology, offers a useful lens for e

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Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia 0824855566, 9780824855567

Indonesia, with its mix of ethnic cultures, cosmopolitan ethos, and strong national ideology, offers a useful lens for e

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Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity 9780804775717

Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad

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Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia 9780824838324

Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human

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Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia [1 ed.] 9789004253605, 9789067183680

Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscap

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Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity 9780520968158

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his erro

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