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The Memory of Trade : Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian
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The Memory of Trade : Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island Paperback - 2000

by Spyer, Patricia

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  • Title The Memory of Trade : Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
  • Author Spyer, Patricia
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-02-18
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18658123-6
  • ISBN 9780822324416 / 0822324415
  • Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.16 x 1.12 in (23.52 x 15.65 x 2.84 cm)
  • Reading level 1740
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Library of Congress subjects Aru Islands (Indonesia) - Social life and, Economic anthropology - Indonesia - Aru
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99037251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.85

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From the publisher

The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer's study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres--the 'Aru' and the 'Malay'--and the fissured construction of community that has ensued from centuries of active international trade and more recent encroachments of modernity.
Drawing on more than two years of archival and ethnographic research, Spyer examines the dynamics of contact with the Dutch and Europeans, Suharto's postcolonial regime, and with the competing religions of Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism in the context of the recent conversion of pagan Aruese. While arguing that Aru identity and community are defined largely in terms of absence, longing, memory, and desire, she also incorporates present-day realities--such as the ecological destruction wrought by the Aru trade in such luxury goods as pearls and shark fins--without overlooking the mystique and ritual surrounding these activities. Imprinted on the one hand by the archipelago's long engagement with extended networks of commerce and communication and, on the other, by modernity's characteristic repressions and displacements, Aruese make and manage their lives somewhat precariously within what they often seem to construe as a dangerously expanding--if still enticing--world. By documenting not only the particular expectations and strategies Aruese have developed in dealing with this larger world but also the price they pay for participation therein, The Memory of Trade speaks to problems commonly faced elsewhere in the frontier spaces of modern nation-states.
Balancing particularly astute analysis with classic ethnography, The Memory of Trade will appeal not only to anthropologists and historians but also to students and specialists of Southeast Asia, modernity, and globalization.

From the rear cover

"With profound insight, empathy, and theoretical sophistication, Patricia Spyer traces out the complex intertwinings among identity, global commerce, local ritual, and national politics. This book is a masterful demonstration of how much of modernity's paradoxes, romance, and uncanny displacements best come into sight when viewed from the perspective of the supposed margins."--Webb Keane, author of "Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society"

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Citations

  • Choice, 11/01/2000, Page 587

About the author

Patricia Spyer is a Lecturer at the Research Centre Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.


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