In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely cr…
"Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia explores how visual representations shaped and were shaped by how the ethnic Chinese confronted the period of economic dislocation and radical social change during Dutch colonialism and the nationalist struggles in the decoloni…
In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activis…
For more than a decade Tom Boellstorff has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention work. This text considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich …
An anthropological examination of non-normative male sexuality outside of the "West," using Indonesia as a case study
