Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java

Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in JavaThe volume is an ethnographic monograph centring on the island of Java that also makes a singular contribution to the anthropological theorising of the person.

Through essays about prominent genres and themes

to establish what works and what doesn't

in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period

and peoples

including issues such as well-being and human capital

creating safe environments and using evaluation protocols

contemporary political scene

This book focuses on the complex thinking processes artists utilize when teaching and offers a reconciliation of the artistic and educational enterprises

Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing

the resulting complexities and controversies and

gathered through books and sought out from elders

considering hybrid bodies and precarious lives under neoliberal late capitalism