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Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society

Javanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society

Williams, Walter L.

Paperback

Southeast Asian History

ISBN10: 0813516498
ISBN13: 9780813516493
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 1991
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Java is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed tell how they have coped with rapid social and economic change, and the transformation of their traditions. Williams has carefully selected the individuals he includes to represent a wide diversity of Java's people. We hear from fascinating men and women of various religions, from the rich and the poor, and from different ethnic backgrounds. Diversity is a constant theme, as evidenced by a poor pedicab driver who can barely scrape along, by a rich businesswoman who explains how she balances her professional and domestic roles, by an educated and respected homosexual school principal, and by an illiterate mother of fourteen children. All of them present in their lives a unique Javanese approach to living.

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