The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in JavaPrinceton University Press, 2012. 10. 11. - 320ÆäÀÌÁö 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 century. Focusing on this community, Brenner examines what she calls the making of the "unmodern." She portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its distinctive forms of social life and highlights the unique power of women in the marketplace and the home--two domains closely linked to each other through local economies of production and exchange. Against the social, political, and economic developments of late-colonial and postcolonial Java, Brenner describes how an innovative, commercially successful lifestyle became an anachronism in Indonesian society, thereby challenging the idea that tradition invariably gives way to modernity in an evolutionary progression. |
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Modernity and Its Decline | 9 |
Rethinking the Domestic Sphere | 15 |
Capturing the Local | 22 |
CHAPTER | 52 |
CHAPTER THREE | 87 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 134 |
Status Style and Money | 140 |
The Danger of Mens Desire | 149 |
Gifts and Legacies | 177 |
History Descent and Cultural Value | 185 |
Ancestral Commodities and the Regeneration of Value | 193 |
Preserving Tradition | 199 |
CHAPTER | 206 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 225 |
NOTES | 255 |
GLOSSARY | 281 |