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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia /

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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Autor principal: Saraswati, L. Ayu (Autor, Verfasser.)
Otros Autores: Kipp, Rita Smith (Editor , Herausgeber.), Chandler, David P. (Editor , Herausgeber.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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