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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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"[T]he book's heart really lies in the vicissitudes of personal experience, and the ethnographer's relationships with certain individuals. In this respect, the book properly takes its place among other recent works that center on the particularities of experience. Here the author's long fieldwork in Kodi serves her well." -"Indonesia "The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy to enjoy them. ...she is a very welcome guide, helping the reader follow the chains of metaphors that turn experience into poetry. Any student who has suffered through Saussure and Levi-Strauss deserves the pleasure of reading this book." -"The Journal of Asian Studies
Synopsis:
In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions; domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance, entangled in sexual politics, and expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0415920116
- ISBN 13 9780415920117
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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