An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details of the...(展开全部)

An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich, dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions. Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80 million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details of the...(展开全部)

One in 30 of the people on this planet is Indonesian. The 13,000 islands of their homeland, scattered along the equator, stretch the distance from London to Tehran, and the residents of the capital, Jakarta, tweet more than those of any other city on the planet. By any standard, Indonesia is a global hub, one of the most dynamic and diverse countries of the 21st century. But yo...(展开全部)

In 1945, Indonesia’s declaration of independence promised: ‘the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.’ Still working on the ‘etc.’ seven decades later, the world’s fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse – rich and enchanting but riddled with ineptitude and corruption. Elizabeth Pisani, who fir...(展开全部)

* * Winner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association * * The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay ...(展开全部)

In this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history—that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in the early seventeenth-century Dutch conquests; and that contemporary politics are conducted in a new language, Bahasa Indonesia, ...(展开全部)

理想国译丛037-印度尼西亚是世界上最大的群岛国家，由13,500座岛屿组成，住着360个族群，说看719种语言。它不仅拥有丰富的天然资源，也是一个有着无与伦比的文化多样性与异质性的国家。印尼长年饱受殖民剥削与冲突战争蹂躏，拥有复杂的殖民经验与艰辛的现代化历程，加上其地理特征所导致的多种族、 多语言、多宗教的特性，要理解它殊为困难。伊丽莎白·皮萨尼曾先后以驻外记者和艾滋病流行病学家的身份周游印尼诸岛，深入观察和理解这个神秘多变、处于现代与传统的奇妙交汇处的国度，并深入剖析印尼近代史、政治制度、种族宗教认同、僵化官僚体制，以及传统的“黏稠”文化，将游历中所见所闻的零星片段逐渐拼凑成一幅完整的印尼画像。

理想国译丛037-印度尼西亚是世界上最大的群岛国家，由13,500座岛屿组成，住着360个族群，说看719种语言。它不仅拥有丰富的天然资源，也是一个有着无与伦比的文化多样性与异质性的国家。印尼长年饱受殖民剥削与冲突战争蹂躏，拥有复杂的殖民经验与艰辛的现代化历程，加上其地理特征所导致的多种族、 多语言、多宗教的特性，要理解它殊为困难。伊丽莎白·皮萨尼曾先后以驻外记者和艾滋病流行病学家的身份周游印尼诸岛，深入观察和理解这个神秘多变、处于现代与传统的奇妙交汇处的国度，并深入剖析印尼近代史、政治制度、种族宗教认同、僵化官僚体制，以及传统的“黏稠”文化，将游历中所见所闻的零星片段逐渐拼凑成一幅完整的印尼画像。

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