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Book Club: A Certain Age
I have been struggling with the strange kind of fieldwork I did in Aceh for the past few years and how to both acknowledge that strangeness and write about it. Rudolf Mrázek’s new book, A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta Through … Continue reading
Posted in Aceh, Anthropology, Book Club, Indonesia, Reflexive
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