This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate
matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual
arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial
categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing
that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a
potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler's essays focus on parents
and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned
children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to
imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent
from its historiography. In a new preface, Stoler takes up a broad
range of problematics raised in the first edition, including the
analytics of comparison, the treatment of the intimate, and more.
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