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Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia

Knörr, Jacqueline

Hardcover

Series: Integration and Conflict Studies, Book 9

AnthropologySoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1782382682
ISBN13: 9781782382683
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2014
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

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