In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna
Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all
those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest
assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks,
a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South
Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the
familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual
encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus
friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink
notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and
the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography
and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an
extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone
interested in the complexities of culture.
Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian
bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development,
Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans,
right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not
for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows
individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the
fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between
anthropology and cultural studies, "In the Realm of the Diamond
Queen" will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about
gender, power, and the politics of identity.
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