Kota-kota pusaka di Indonesia tidak terlepas dari sejarah masa kolonial. Setelah masa kemerdekaan, perkembangan kota yang dinamis dan terkadang kontradiktif, telah memberikan ruang interaksi antara masa lalu dan masa kini. Adalah sebuah pertanyaan menarik tentang bagaimana kita dapat menikmati keunikan kota pusaka melalui jelajah santai untuk menyaksikan langsung pesona kota sampai ke gang-gang…
Pisani first came to Indonesia as a journalist and later as an epidemiologist specializing in HIV, living there at various times during a 25-year period. Charmed by Indonesia’s idiosyncrasies, contradictions, enigmas, disappointments, and seductions, she garnered the impression that the nation is “one giant Bad Boyfriend.” Indonesia is a string of more than 13,000 islands inhabited by peo…
Mengkaji sejarah orang Arab di Nusantara tidak akan lengkap tanpa membicarakan karya van den Berg ini yang sudah menjadi klasik. Sebagai penasihat ahli pemerintah Hindia Belanda,van den Berg merupakan doktor hukum (Islam) dari Universitas Leiden yang sangat tekun mengkaji fikih, tarekat dan bahasa Arab. Ia membatasi ruang lingkup dengan hanya menelaah orang Arab yang berasal dari Hadramaut. Van…
“Marx, yang kepadanya kita berutang pembedaan antara infrastruktur dan suprastruktur, memusatkan perhatiannya terutama pada yang pertama dan paling-paling mengulas relasi antar keduanya hanya secara garis besar saja. Kepada teori suprastruktur inilah saya coba memberikan sumbangsih.” — Claude Lévi-Strauss Secara umum, antropologi Marxis lahir sebagai reaksi atas kegagalan teoretis dan…
'The letters Raden Ajeng Kartini wrote from her home in East Java to Stella Zeehandelaar, the 'modern girl' in Amsterdam, are amongst the most powerful and stirring of the many letters she wrote in the last four years of her life. They express both her passionate hope and powerful aspiration to bring about change - in her own life, to the position of Javanese women, to colonised Java - and refl…
Written by one of the prominent scholars in the field, this concise, up-to-date introduction to general anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. The combination of brevity and readability makes the third edition of Window on Humanirt a perfect match for general anthropology courses that use readings or ethnographies along with a main text
'Suppose,' Clifford Geertz suggests, 'having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed.' A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, …
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies as relevant today as it was in 1934, Ruth Benedict's groundbreaking study is the book that first brought the concept of 'culture' to lay readers. In this fascinating work, Benedict compares the cultures of three peoples: the Kwakiutl of western Canada, the Zuni of the southwestern United States, and the Dobuans of Melanesia. Featuring an introductio…
First published in 1979, The World of Goods rapidly established itself as a classic. In this pioneering work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest what market researchers have long suspected and anthropologists have observed firsthand in other cultures--that people use goods as a means of communicating with each other.
It is the unique …
Fieldwork and Footnotes discusses general themes within the history of anthropology in Europe and considers recent debates in the history of science on the construction of knowledge. Questioning whether it is possible to identify distinct anthropological traditions within European anthropology, it includes contributions on ethnography and ethnology in Europe, the United …
A remarkable introduction to cultural studies as relevant today as it was in 1934, Ruth Benedict's groundbreaking study is the book that first brought the concept of 'culture' to lay readers. In this fascinating work, Benedict compares the cultures of three peoples: the Kwakiutl of western Canada, the Zuni of the southwestern United States, and the Dobuans of Melanesia. Featuring an introductio…
'Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No pr�cis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read.'�Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review
'No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page.'�Edmund Leach, <…