ISBN:
0742518639
,
0742518647
,
9781461617327
,
9780742518643
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 309 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asian voices
Parallel Title:
Print version Sisters and Lovers : Women and Desire in Bali
DDC:
305.42/09598/6
Keywords:
Sex customs
;
Women Sexual behavior
;
Women Social conditions
;
Ethnology
;
Sexual behavior
;
Bali (Indonesia : Province) Social life and customs
Abstract:
This rich ethnography in a rural village in North Bali illuminates the construction of desire by exploring cultural practices regarding courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity. The way these cornerstones of daily life are played out in the alternative arenas of tourism and illness highlight pervasive gender disparities in the expression of sexuality. By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography but an intimate and fully realized po
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: Ethnography and Fiction in Punyanwangi; Chapter 2: Muting Desire: Women, Sex, and Discourse; Chapter 3: Producing Desire: Village Economy and Social Organization; Chapter 4: Marrying Desire: Locating Women in the Social Order; Chapter 5: Depriving Desire: Lovina Tourism and the Economy of Pleasure; Chapter 6: Delinquent Desire: Female Sexuality in Punyanwangi; Chapter 7: Expressing Desire: Women and Hysteria in Punyanwangi
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Denial and Delirium: Women's Desire as Transgressive CapitalEpilogue: The Naming Ceremony; Appendix A: On Ethnographic Truth(s); Appendix B: Discourse and Dichotomies; Appendix C: Notes on the Village Household Census; Appendix D: Cloves; Appendix E: Gender and Labor in Punyanwangi; Appendix F: List of Agnatic Descent Groups (Tunggalan),Desa Adat Punyanwangi; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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