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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 125–149.
Published: 01 February 2001
...Evelyn Blackwood Abstract Despite a large number of both historical and anthropological works on the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia, a number of questions remain concerning this matrilineal and Islamic society. In a recent study, historian Ken Young articulated a growing consensus...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 849–879.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Evelyn Blackwood Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 List of References Abdullah Taufik 1971 . Schools and Politics: The Kaum Muda Movement in West Sumatra (1927–1933) . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell University . Alhamidy Li...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 915–916.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Evelyn Blackwood BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 915 in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia more broadly, as well as to the anthropological literature on kinship and matrilineal societies. SUZANNE BRENNER University of California, San Diego The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 842–845.
Published: 01 August 2012
... Blackwood . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2010 . xi, 251 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 In the last twenty years, the explosion of research on gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia has brought new attention...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 17–31.
Published: 01 February 2010
... subsume sexual behavior and identities (for a few examples of the debate, see Blackwood, forthcoming; Jackson 2006 ; Morris 1994 ; Sinnott 2004 ; Stoler 1995 ). In fact, much of the literature cited in this essay dispels any easy application of “sexuality” as an analytical or descriptive unit...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 913–915.
Published: 01 August 2001
...Suzanne Brenner Webs of Power: Women, Kin, and Community in a Sumatran Village . By Evelyn Blackwood . Lanham, Md : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. , 2000 . xvi, 219 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 February 2001
...) EVELYN BLACKWOOD echoes this observation when she comments that her paper and those by Giersch, Li, and Agrawal all explore the processes involved in the interface between the state and indigenous practices. She writes: I like the focus on what happens in the interstices of these processes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (4): 827–830.
Published: 01 November 2005
... as gender or sex in conceptualizing appropriate sexual behavior. EVELYN BLACKWOOD argues that despite surface similarities between ritual transvestites in early modern island Southeast Asia and contemporary lesbian and gay movements in Indonesia and elsewhere, the two phenomena are formed in radically...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1239–1241.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Tyrell Caroline Haberkorn Women's Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia . Edited by Saskia E. Wieringa , Evelyn Blackwood , and Abha Bhaiya . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2007 . xv , 279 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 November 1988
.... This imbalance, a product of Yokoyama's unexamined nineteenth-century scientism, of course has consequences for his assessment of the British-Japanese encounter, as will be explained later on. So denned, at any rate, the subject determines the scope and shape of this study. Thus, Yokoyama reads the Blackwood...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 927–946.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the Diaspora (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003), 46, 50. 68 Davies, Gender Diversity in Indonesia , 128–29. 67 Davies, Gender Diversity in Indonesia , 134. 66 Blackwood, “Trans Identities and Contingent Masculinities,” 476. 65 Sinnott, Toms and Dees , 140; see...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 523–525.
Published: 01 May 1996
... and Evelyn Blackwood) deal with Indonesia's Minangkabau, the world's largest matrilineal society. Blackwood suggests that the state's (and Islam's) recognition of men as household heads is one example of how Minang women's power has been overlooked and undermined since the colonial era. She focuses...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 912–913.
Published: 01 August 2001
... in a Sumatran Village. By EVELYN BLACKWOOD. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2000. xvi, 219 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). In this well-written and informative ethnography of a Minangkabau village in West Sumatra, Indonesia, Evelyn Blackwood offers a detailed picture of how social...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 522–523.
Published: 01 May 1996
... nature of gendering processes" (p. 10). Even local ideologies of gender can be contradictory. Two essays (by Jennifer Krier and Evelyn Blackwood) deal with Indonesia's Minangkabau, the world's largest matrilineal society. Blackwood suggests that the state's (and Islam's) recognition of men as household...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (5): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 1960
.... Great Cave at Niah. SMJ 8 (Dec. 1958), 62026. The leaders of Malaya and who's who, 1951/58. Ed. and pub. by J. Victor Morais. Kuala Lumpur, 1958? 450 p. MACDONALD, JAMES. My two jungles. London, G. G. Harrap, 1957. 264 p. MADOC, G. C. Malayan milk run. Blackwood's WEST, ALBERT JOHN PATRICK, and JOHN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 895–917.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and sexualities or at least are more inclined than historians and others to do so. This is readily apparent when one considers the importance of ethnographic material and theoretical interventions from Evelyn Blackwood ( 2010 ), Tom Boellstorff ( 2005 , 2007 ), Sharyn Davies ( 2010 ), Peter Jackson ( 1997...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (5): 175.
Published: 01 September 1964
..., R. A. tkonomicheskie pozitsii frantsuzskogo imperializma v Indokitae nakanune vtorol mirovoi volny. NAA no. 1 (1963), 8595. Articles HOANG-LONG-DIEN. L'evolution des echanges du Viet-Nam et des Etats voisins avec la zone P. M. B. Five days in Brunei. Blackwood's maga- franc. L'Institut de science...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 479–481.
Published: 01 May 2019
... are specifically focused on homosexuality, offering important updates to foundational studies. Evelyn Blackwood notes that the term lesbi appeared in Indonesia in the early 1980s and was adopted by many Indonesian lesbians but was not accompanied by widespread shifts in sexual and gender identities at that time...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 238–239.
Published: 01 February 2019
... to be debated. Two of the volume's chapters are specifically focused on homosexuality, offering important updates to foundational studies. Evelyn Blackwood notes that the term lesbi appeared in Indonesia in the early 1980s and was adopted by many Indonesian lesbians, but was not accompanied by widespread...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1253–1263.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Philippines" 1253 731 67 1033 1051 95 381 673 965 353 645 329 9 439 1085 413 1254 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES BLACKWOOD, EVELYN. "Representing Women: The Politics of Minangkabau Adat Writings" HOWELL, JULIA DAY. "Sufism and the Indonesian Islamic Revival" Li, TANIA MURRAY. "Relational Histories...