Book
The domestication of desire: women, wealth, and modernity in Java
Princeton University Press • Princeton, N.j. • Published In 1998 • Pages:
By: Brenner, Suzanne April.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book is an exploration of modernity and its reversals in an Indonesian city. It traces the social dynamics that brought this city into being as a self-consciously (if somewhat unevenly) modern community in late colonial Java. It also analyzes the factors that contributed to the community's decline beginning in the 1960s. It shows how residents of this town (mostly engaged in the manufacturing of culturally and economically valued Batik) created their own distinctive forms of modern social life, but also how, under certain circumstances, modernness can give way to traditionalism, turning back the trajectory of progress usually associated with modernization.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender roles and issues
- Social relationships and groups
- Status, role, and prestige
- Drives and emotions
- Social personality
- Gender roles and issues
- Household
- Family relationships
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Clothing manufacture
- Mercantile business
- Classes
- Political movements
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Prophets and ascetics
- Ethnic stratification
- Cultural goals
- Cultural identity and pride
- Traditional history
- Sociocultural trends
- Cult of the dead
- Organized ceremonial
- Visiting and hospitality
- Etiquette
- Techniques of socialization
- Transmission of skills
- Sex training
- Education system
- Religious denominations
- Eating
- Saving and investment
- Individual enterprise
- Medium of exchange
- External relations
- Sacred objects and places
- Gambling
- Streets and traffic
- Cities
- Dwellings
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Javanese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1986-1988
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1658-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Suzanne April Brenner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97046124
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Indonesia--Surakarta
- Social change--Indonesia--Surakarta
- Women--Indonesia--Surakarta
- Surakarta (Indonesia)--Social conditions