Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824837363
ISBN13:9780824837365
Release Date:March 2013
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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