Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories.

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Dijk, Kees van (Author), Taylor, Jean Gelman (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Free online access: JSTOR.
JSTOR open access.
Subjects:
Hygiene > Indonesia > History.
Sanitation > Indonesia > History.
Hygiène > Indonésie > Histoire.
Salubrité publique > Indonésie > Histoire.
Humanities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Hygiene.
Sanitation.
Indonesia.
Cleanliness
Colonial history
Colonial politics
Cultural anthropology
Hygiene
Indonesia
Sociology
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items