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Adat
Affair
Anthropologist
Aunt
Author_Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Benedict Anderson
Betel
Birth control
Borneo
Bride price
Bureaucrat
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Central Mountain
Civilization
Clothing
Colonialism
Communism
Community leader
Cornell University
Criticism
Cross-cultural
Dayak people
Deference
Dichotomy
Disadvantage
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Ethnography
Etiquette
Exclusion
Family planning
Gaze
Hegemony
Hiking
Household
Indonesia
Indonesians
Informant
Judith Butler
Kalimantan
Literature
Livelihood
Logging
Majapahit
Marriage
Meratus Dayak
Mother
Narrative
Nation state
National Policy
Political culture
Political status
Politician
Politics
Post-structuralism
Public sphere
Regime
Religion
Salam (TV series)
Shamanism
Slash-and-burn
Social movement
South Kalimantan
Spirituality
Storytelling
Subjectivity
Suharto
Tax
Technology
Village head
Vulnerability
Wealth
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691000510
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.
Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor, with Faye Ginsburg, of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon).
