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Author

Dunham, S. Ann (Stanley Ann)

Title Surviving against the odds : village industry in Indonesia / S. Ann Dunham ; edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper ; with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng and an afterword by Robert W. Hefner.

Imprint

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	338.47682 D92s 2009	---	Available

Description	xxiii, 374 p., [29] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Note	"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
Thesis	Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral), University of Hawaii, 1992.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-360) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The socioeconomic organization of metalworking industries -- Kajar, a blacksmithing village in Yogyakarta -- Relevant macrodata -- Government interventions -- Conclusions and development implications.
Summary	"President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia... Surviving Against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar." -- dust jacket.
Subject	Rural industries -- Indonesia.
	Blacksmithing -- Indonesia.
	Metal-work -- Indonesia.
	Indonesia -- Rural conditions.
Added Author	Dewey, Alice G.
	Cooper, Nancy I.
ISBN	9780822346876 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0822346877 (cloth : alk. paper)