Dissociated Identities: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in an Indonesian SocietyPlacing 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 tradition working against the wish to be "modern" and with the new wealth differences in their midst. Newly discrete facets of Karo selfhood - ethnic, religious, and economic - replicate in microcosm the political tensions of the nation-state, revealing both why the New Order has enjoyed great stability over almost three decades and the sources of disruption that may lie ahead. |
Contents
Conceptualizing Identities | 1 |
Precolonial Conversations about the Batak | 15 |
Emergent Ethnicity Karo | 41 |
Capitalism and the Management of Diversity | 67 |
The Politics of Religion and Class in Indonesia | 85 |
The Politics of Culture in Indonesia | 105 |
Kinship in New Contexts | 125 |
Ethnic Pride Ethnic Politics | 157 |
Christianity Ethnicity and Class | 189 |
Muslim Karo | 215 |
The Traditional Religion Hinduism? | 239 |
The Secularization of Karo Identities | 253 |
Glossary and Abbreviations | 265 |
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