Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia /

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Author / Creator:Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- author.
Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Integration and conflict studies ; volume 9
Integration and conflict studies ; v. 9.
Subject:Ethnicity -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Creoles -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Ethnic identity.
Creoles -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Social conditions.
Postcolonialism -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
Ethnic conflict -- Indonesia -- Jakarta.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Creoles -- Ethnic identity.
Creoles -- Social conditions.
Ethnic conflict.
Ethnic relations.
Ethnicity.
Politics and government.
Postcolonialism.
Social conditions.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Ethnic relations.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Social conditions.
Jakarta (Indonesia) -- Politics and government.
Indonesia -- Jakarta.
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Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398256
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ISBN:9781782382690
1782382690
9781782382683
1782382682
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia 9781782382683