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Lost in Mall : an Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarta in the 1990s.
In this study, based on extensive anthropological fieldwork throughout the 1990s, an ""emerging new middle class"" is examined as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Despite a global orientation and a taste for democracy, its members seemed to have internalized the New Order along with...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this study, based on extensive anthropological fieldwork throughout the 1990s, an ""emerging new middle class"" is examined as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Despite a global orientation and a taste for democracy, its members seemed to have internalized the New Order along with some lingering late-colonial notions as their guidelines for life. How ""new"" was this new middle class anyway? Lifestyle and material culture practices in the suburb of Bintaro Raya-in public space as well as in the intimacy of living rooms-illustrate the everyday ambiguity of people who appear to be trapped in their. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1299783945 9781299783942 9789004253445 9004253440 |