In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place

In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep...

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Beteilige Person: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2021]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843473?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture.Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten)
ISBN:9781400843473
DOI:10.1515/9781400843473