Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia /

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In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saraswati, L. Ayu (Autor)
Otros Autores: Chandler, David P. (Editor ), Kipp, Rita Smith (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2013]
Colección:Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ; 51
Temas:
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > Indonesia.
Human skin color > Indonesia > Psychological aspects.
Race awareness > Indonesia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
  • CHAPTER 1. Rasa, Race, and Ramayana: Sensing and Censoring the History of Color in Precolonial Java
  • CHAPTER 2. Rooting and Routing Whiteness in Colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese Whiteness
  • CHAPTER 3. Indonesian White Beauty: Spatializing Race and Racializing Spatial Tropes
  • CHAPTER 4. Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin- Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine
  • CHAPTER 5. Malu: Coloring Shame and Shaming the Color of Beauty
  • Conclusion. Shades of Emotions in a Transnational Context
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • Other Volumes in the Series

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