Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City more books like this

by James T Siegel

In this ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech ...

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The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java more books like this

by Suzanne April Brenner

While doing fieldwork in the modernizing Javanese city of Solo during the late 1980s, Suzanne Brenner came upon a neighborhood that seemed like a museum of a bygone era: Laweyan, a once-thriving production center of batik textiles, had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of the Indonesian state ...

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Kraton and Kumpeni : Surakarta and Yogyakarta, 1830-1870. more books like this

by Vincent J. H. Houben

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Partini : tulisan kehidupan seseorang putri Mangkunegaran = Partini : recollections of a Mangkunegaran princess more books like this

by Arti Purbani, Roswitha Pamoentjak Singgih

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Javanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts more books like this

by Nancy K Florida

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Karaton Surakarta: a Look Into the Court of Surakarta Hadiningrat, Central Java

by Commissioned By Paku Buwono XII

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Terjemahan Wedha-tama

by Prince of Surakarta Mangkunegara IV

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Le gamelan à Java : l'enseignement de la musique traditionnelle au conservatoire de Surakarta more books like this

by Nathalie Jacquemart

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