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Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knorr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the grassroots and the State level, showing how different sections of society engage with creole identity in order to promote collective identification transcending ethnic and religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and ideological projects.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
• Author: Jacqueline Knorr
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9781782382683
• ISBN: 1782382682
• ID: 04845286
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Weight: 524 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 153 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2014

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