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Surviving against the Odds – Village Industry in Indonesia de S. Ann Dunham

Surviving against the Odds – Village Industry in Indonesia: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Autor S. Ann Dunham, Alice G. Dewey, Nancy I. Cooper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 dec 2009
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had hoped to do. Dunham’s thesis adviser, Alice G. Dewey, and her colleague, Nancy I. Cooper, undertook the revisions at the request of her daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The result is <I>Surviving against the Odds</I>, a book based on Dunham’s fourteen years of research among craftsmen in Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population. A work of economic anthropology, <I>Surviving against the Odds</I> reflects Dunham’s commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia.After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawai‘i to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawai‘i to attend school in 1971. Dedicated to “Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field,” <I>Surviving against the Odds</I> is a study of the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar. Focusing attention on rural Indonesia’s small industries, Dunham argued that, contrary to the views of many scholars and development experts, wet-rice cultivation was not the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia. Moreover, she contended that since the villagers were pursuing the economic activities they perceived as most profitable, they did not need development workers to teach them Western-style capitalism. <I>Surviving against the Odds</I> includes a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper and a foreword by her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, both of which discuss Dunham and her career. In his afterword, the Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of <I>Surviving against the Odds</I>, its relation to anthropology when it was researched and written, and its continuing relevance today.
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ISBN-13: 9780822346876
ISBN-10: 0822346877
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 167 x 241 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.9 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Plates; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Editor’s Preface1: Introduction; 2: The Socioeconomic Organization of Metalworking Industries; 3: Kajar, a Blacksmithing Village in Yogyakarta; 4: Relevant Macrodata; 5: Government Interventions; 6:Conclusions and Development ImplicationsGlossary of Metalworking Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

“The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each other’s measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for many of the same reasons my pride swells at the sight of my brother, our president; Mom too moved with such ease through every world, and people opened up at the sight of her smile.”—Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama, from the foreword<BR><BR>“S. Ann Dunham’s Surviving against the Odds bears witness to her knowledge of and affection for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The book also speaks legions about Dunham’s integrity as a cultural anthropologist. . . . By the mid-1980s Dunham had begun to see the audience for her work as made up of not just academics but Indonesians, aid workers, and foreign analysts whose findings affect the lives of ordinary Indonesians. Rather than go with the academic flow, Dunham stayed true to a research program requiring varied and rigorous methodologies, all in an effort to speak truth to power and policy making.”—Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, president of the Association for Asian Studies, from the afterword<BR><BR>“Surviving against the Odds is a work of very fine scholarship grounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, I learned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing (across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metallurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, and the remarkable welter of development schemes and projects in play during the long period of S. Ann Dunham’s research. Dunham knew the arcane world of development very well and her account of it is fascinating and important.”—Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the American Anthropological Association <BR><BR>“A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunham's fieldwork has been published — a fulfillment of her dream, courtesy of her daughter...Over a period of 14 years, Dunham visited and lived among Indonesian villagers. Her work challenged the prevailing view among social anthropologists of the time that Indonesian peasants were better off just cultivating rice...The result is <I>Surviving the Odds,</I> a study of blacksmithing in the village of Kajar, Indonesia.” - <I>NPR</I><BR><BR>"<I>Surviving against the Odds is a condensed version of Ann's PhD on village industries in Java that she says she worked for almost two decades. In the end Ann decided to focus on just one of five crafts - bamboo, clay, leather, textile and blacksmithing - she had initially intended to cover in five villages she found specializing in these crafts. But even with blacksmithing as her "smaller topic", Ann ended up with a dissertation more than 1,000 pages long, finally submitted in 1992.... Ann's book - like her - is deeply empathetic. Full of evocative descriptions of the lives of villagers she worked with, it is a testament to her commitment to the development of lives of rural and marginalized peoples all around the world." - Julia Suryakusuma, <I>The Jakarta Post</I>
"The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each other's measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for many of the same reasons my pride swells at the sight of my brother, our president; Mom too moved with such ease through every world, and people opened up at the sight of her smile."--Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama, from the foreword "S. Ann Dunham's Surviving against the Odds bears witness to her knowledge of and affection for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The book also speaks legions about Dunham's integrity as a cultural anthropologist... By the mid-1980s Dunham had begun to see the audience for her work as made up of not just academics but Indonesians, aid workers, and foreign analysts whose findings affect the lives of ordinary Indonesians. Rather than go with the academic flow, Dunham stayed true to a research program requiring varied and rigorous methodologies, all in an effort to speak truth to power and policy making."--Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, president of the Association for Asian Studies, from the afterword "Surviving against the Odds is a work of very fine scholarship grounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, I learned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing (across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metallurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, and the remarkable welter of development schemes and projects in play during the long period of S. Ann Dunham's research. Dunham knew the arcane world of development very well and her account of it is fascinating and important."--Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the American Anthropological Association "A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunham's fieldwork has been published -- a fulfillment of her dream, courtesy of her daughter...Over a period of 14 years, Dunham visited and lived among Indonesian villagers. Her work challenged the prevailing view among social anthropologists of the time that Indonesian peasants were better off just cultivating rice...The result is Surviving the Odds, a study of blacksmithing in the village of Kajar, Indonesia." - NPR "Surviving against the Odds is a condensed version of Ann's PhD on village industries in Java that she says she worked for almost two decades. In the end Ann decided to focus on just one of five crafts - bamboo, clay, leather, textile and blacksmithing - she had initially intended to cover in five villages she found specializing in these crafts. But even with blacksmithing as her "smaller topic", Ann ended up with a dissertation more than 1,000 pages long, finally submitted in 1992... Ann's book - like her - is deeply empathetic. Full of evocative descriptions of the lives of villagers she worked with, it is a testament to her commitment to the development of lives of rural and marginalized peoples all around the world." - Julia Suryakusuma, The Jakarta Post

Notă biografică

S. Ann Dunham (1942-1995), mother of President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, earned her undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, all in anthropology, from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Dunham spent years working on rural development, microfinance, and women's welfare through organizations including USAID, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Indonesian Federation of Labor Unions, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia. Alice G. Dewey, an Indonesianist, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i. Nancy I. Cooper is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i. Maya Soetoro-Ng has a doctorate in international comparative education from the University of Hawai'i and teaches high-school history in Honolulu. Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is President of the Association for Asian Studies.

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"The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each other's measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for many of the same reasons my pride swells at the sight of my brother, our president; Mom too moved with such ease through every world, and people opened up at the sight of her smile."--Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama, from the foreword

Descriere

An anthropological study by the mother of President Barack Obama