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1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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E-Duke books scholarly collection
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Preface: promenades -- Technical note -- Bypasses and flyovers -- The walls -- The fences -- The classroom -- The window -- Postscript: sometimes voices |
| Summary |
'A Certain Age' is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and around Jakarta. With few exceptions, they were part of an urban elite born under colonial rule and educated at Dutch schools. From the early twentieth century, through the late colonial era, the national revolution, and well into independence after 1945, these intellectuals injected their ideas of modernity, progress, and freedom into local and national discussion. When Mrázek began his interviews, he expected to discuss phenomena such as the transition from colonialism to postcolonialism. His interviewees, however, wanted to share more personal recollections. Mrázek illuminates their stories of the past with evocative depictions of their late-twentieth-century surroundings |
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An ethnographic study of Jakarta, derived from the author's interviews with the city's elderly residents |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Intellectuals -- Indonesia -- Jakarta -- Interviews
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Asian history.
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History.
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Humanities.
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Regional and national history.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
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Intellectuals.
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Kolonialismus
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Stadtforschung
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Mittelstand
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Elite
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Intellektueller
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Jakarta (Indonesia) -- History -- 20th century
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Indonesia -- Jakarta.
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Indonesien
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Java
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Jakarta
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interviews.
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History.
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Interviews.
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Interviews.
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Interviews.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822392682 |
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0822392682 |
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