Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian Society
Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world. What the state's policies on culture and religion mean to Karo women and men, who now live in cities throughout Indonesia as well as in their Sumatran homeland, becomes clear only by looking at the way Karo families and communities contend with religious pluralism, with the pull of...
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An analysis of how Indonesia's policies on culture, religion, and class affect a particular ethnic group--the Karo.
Ch. 1Conceptualizing Identities1Ch. 2Precolonial Conversations about the Batak15Ch. 3Emergent Ethnicity: Karo41Ch. 4Capitalism and the Management of Diversity67Ch. 5The Politics of Religion and Class in Indonesia85Ch. 6The Politics of Culture in Indonesia105Ch. 7Kinship in New Contexts125Ch. 8Ethnic Pride, Ethnic Politics157Ch. 9Christianity, Ethnicity, and Class189Ch. 10Muslim Karo215Ch. 11The Traditional Religion: Hinduism?239Ch. 12The Secularization of Karo Identities253Glossary and Abbreviations265References267Index293
