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Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories.

Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and culture attenti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dijk, Kees van (Autor), Taylor, Jean Gelman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Free online access: JSTOR.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction – Soap is the onset of civilization / Kees van Dijk – Bathing and hygiene : histories from the KITLV images archive / Jean Gelman Taylor – The epidemic that wasn’t : Beriberi in Bangka and the Netherlands Indies / Mary Somers Heidhues – Hygiene, housing and health in colonial Sulawesi / David Henley – Being clean is being strong : policing cleanliness and gay vices in the Netherlands Indies in the 1930s / Marieke Bloembergen – Washing your hair in Java / George Quinn – Tropical spa cultures, eco-chic, and the complexities of new Asianism / Bart Barendregt.