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The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java
While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state during the late twentieth cen
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Paperback, 320 pages
Published
July 21st 1998
by Princeton University Press
(first published January 1st 1998)
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Jul 11, 2012
aldo zirsov
marked it as to-read
bercerita perihal Batik Laweyan, perempuan, perubahan ekonomi dan sosial di wilayah Surakarta.
Good and clear description of how capitalism can affect a society. A bit repetitive.
My favorite Prof from UCSD wrote this. It is simply amazing.
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