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Gender transgression in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia

Article Abstract:

A study argues that despite surface similarities between ritual transvestites in early modern island Southeast Asia and contemporary lesbian and gay movements in Indonesia, the two phenomena are formed in radically different conceptions of the world. It demonstrates that transgressive gender practices are produced anew in different historical periods as island Southeast Asia's gendered cosmologies and sex/gender binaries are reconfigured from the sacred to the innate.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Gays, Gay liberation movement, Gay rights movement, Postcolonialism, Colonialism

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Two views of the Minahasa; or, whatever happened to the poor, Heathen Bushnatives?

Article Abstract:

A poor Alforese heathen who previously felt nothing for morality or uprightness is now filled with feeling, as much of pain as of truth because she truly believes in Jesus Christ her Lord is also not insignificant. Minahasan historian suggested that the transformation of Minahasan culture is profound and the two views of Minahasa were culture difference and poverty.

Religion, Works, Religious beliefs, Minahasans, Kisner, Henriette Ulfers

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Rethinking the imbrication of orality and literacy: historical discourse in early modern Makassar

Article Abstract:

This article examines the relationship of orality and literacy. The author, focusing on 16th century Makassar, argues the notion that a shift from orality to literacy occurs is mistaken and maintains oral and written history relate to one another in a social context.

Literacy, Celebes, Oral history

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