Umar Umar

The dissertation unravels how the indigenous transgender identity of the bissu experiences reconfigurations within the Indonesian modern culture dominated by Islamic heterosexual norm. Based on the data collected from the field research in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, archival res…

In this thesis, I demonstrate how the bissu construct their subjectivity through their performativity in adat. I argue that through their performativity in adat, the bissu (re)construct their subjectivity as hermaphrodite Muslim Bugis shamans while threatening their subjectivity…