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In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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Description for In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Paperback. An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Num Pages: 368 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFK; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 530.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
530g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691000510
SKU
V9780691000510
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About Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is coeditor, with Faye Ginsburg, of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon).
Reviews for In the Realm of the Diamond Queen
Winner of the 1994 Harry J. Benda Prize, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Honorable Mention for the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994