Dunham / Dewey / Cooper Surviving against the Odds

Village Industry in Indonesia
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9261-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

A revised version of S. Ann Dunham's anthropology dissertation that examines the economic importance of the blacksmithing trade in the rural Javanese village of Kajar.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dunham, S. Ann

Dewey, Alice G.

Cooper, Nancy I.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cooper, Nancy I.

Hefner, Robert W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Maya Soetoro-Ng ix

Editors’ Preface / Alice Dewey and Nancy Cooper xi

Acknowledgments xxvii

Supplementary Materials (a sampling of S. Ann Dunham’s
field notes, a letter, and maps) xxxi

Introduction 1

The Socioeconomic Organization of Metalworking Industries 40

Kajar, a Blacksmithing Village in Yogyakarta 82

Relevant Macrodata 155

Government Interventions 196

Conclusions and Development Implications 249

Appendix 283

Notes 287

Glossary of Metalworking Terms 299

Afterword: Ann Dunham, Indonesia, and Anthropology—A Generation On / Robert W. Hefner 317

Bibliography 331

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

S. Ann Dunham (1942–1995), mother of President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, earned her undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all in anthropology, from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Dunham spent years working on rural development, microfinance, and women’s welfare through organizations including USAID, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Indonesian Federation of Labor Unions, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia.

Alice G. Dewey, an Indonesianist, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i.

Nancy I. Cooper is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i.

Maya Soetoro-Ng has a doctorate in international comparative education from the University of Hawai‘i and teaches high-school history in Honolulu.

Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is President of the Association for Asian Studies.