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Constructing gender and local morality: exchange practices in a Javanese village
Indonesia and the Malay world • 32 (94) • Published In 2004 • Pages: 315-329
By: Asmussen, Vibeke.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with locally functioning exchange practices among rural households in Sarijati, a village in Central Java. It shows that exchange among rural households in this village express and produce gendered social practices as well as a rationale for local morality. Ethnographic evidence for this argument comes from a closer analysis of the various reasons male and female heads of household give for participating in different types of exchange including work parties, informal rotating credit/saving groups, and ocassional gifting and organizing feasts.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Exchange transactions
- Gender status
- Division of labor by gender
- Family relationships
- Inter-community relations
- Etiquette
- Ethics
- Ethos
- Buying and selling
- Games
- Gambling
- Social relationships and groups
- Status, role, and prestige
- Settlement patterns
- Organized ceremonial
- Visiting and hospitality
- 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
- article
- 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
- 1996-1998
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1996-2004
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Vibeke Asmussen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-329)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 97093229
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)