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This dissertation is about indigenous coffee farmers who win state recognition of their ancestral territory. The story unfolds in a place called Katu that is tucked between the lush foothills of Indonesia's Lore Lindu National Park, on the island of Sulawesi. In 1995, an Asian D…

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…

This paper is the result of anthropological research carried out in a rural Malay society where two distinct traditions of gender norms co-exist: adat and Islam. The Malay term adat refers to the 'custom' or 'culture' sanctioning egalitarian gender practices as observed in many …