Get Free Shipping on orders over $89
Constituting the Minangkabau : Explorations in Anthropology - Joel Kahn

Constituting the Minangkabau

By: Joel Kahn

Paperback | 31 March 2021 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $86.99

$79.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $19.94 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia. The author argues that the impact of colonial land-grabbing and political control led to the formation of a peasant economy in the period.At the same time, the author tackles issues in the recent anthropological debates about ethnography and culture to argue that this period also witnessed the construction of what we now call ''Minangkabau Culture'' - a process that involved western ethnographers, colonial officials and Minangkabau intellectuals in an often conflicted process of modern cultural transformation.

More in Asian History

Rebirth : A Love Story From the Depths of War - Antoun Issa

RRP $34.99

$22.99

34%
OFF
Men in the Sun : And Other Palestinian Stories - Keira Lykourentzos

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Raven Mother : War, family and inheritance: a memoir - Jane Messer
Japan : A History in Objects - Angus Lockyer

RRP $74.99

$55.75

26%
OFF
Samurai - Rosina Buckland

Hardcover

RRP $100.00

$70.99

29%
OFF
Revolusi : Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World - David Van Reybrouck
The Golden Road : How Ancient India Transformed the World - William Dalrymple
A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Ilan Pappe
The Anarchy : The Relentless Rise of the East India Company - William Dalrymple
In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays - Junichiro Tanizaki
Genghis Khan : And the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Rain of Ruin : Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan - Richard Overy
Persepolis : The Story of an Iranian Childhood - Marjane Satrapi

RRP $39.99

$26.75

33%
OFF
From Third World to First : Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom - Lee Kuan Yew
Sister Bullwinkel : The untold uncensored story - Lynette Ramsay Silver

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF