Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia / Jacqueline Knörr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960-

logy, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropo, Author.

Series:

Integration and conflict studies ; v. 9.

Integration and Conflict Studies ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Indonesia--Jakarta.

Ethnicity.

Creoles--Indonesia--Jakarta--Ethnic identity.

Creoles.

Creoles--Indonesia--Jakarta--Social conditions.

Postcolonialism--Indonesia--Jakarta.

Postcolonialism.

Ethnic conflict--Indonesia--Jakarta.

Ethnic conflict.

Jakarta (Indonesia)--Ethnic relations.

Jakarta (Indonesia).

Jakarta (Indonesia)--Social conditions.

Jakarta (Indonesia)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Knörr Jacqueline : Jacqueline Knörr is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, Germany. She was brought up in Ghana and Germany and conducted extensive field research in Indonesia, West Africa and Central Europe. She has worked as Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, University Professor, Scientific Director, Consultant and Political Advisor. Her research and publications focus on the political anthropology of postcolonial societies, decolonization, nationalism, identity politics, ethno-linguistics, gender, and childhood. Jacqueline Knörr is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale, Germany. She was brought up in Ghana and Germany and conducted extensive field research in Indonesia, West Africa and Central Europe. She has worked as Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, University Professor, Scientific Director, Consultant and Political Advisor. Her research and publications focus on the political anthropology of postcolonial societies, decolonization, nationalism, identity politics, ethno-linguistics, gender, and childhood.

Summary:

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Creole Identity in Postcolonial Context; Chapter 2 - Jakarta, Batavia, Betawi; Chapter 3 - Orang Betawi versus Orang Jakarta; Chapter 4 - Suku bangsa Betawi: Integration and Differentiation of Ethnic Identity; Chapter 5 - Betawi versus Peranakan (Chinese); Chapter 6 - Orang Betawi versus Orang Indonesia: The Connection between Ethnic Diversity and National Unity; Chapter 7 - Betawi Politics of Identity and Difference; Conclusion - Towards an Open End; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78238-269-0

OCLC:

878109191