Surviving against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia by S. Ann Dunham (Engl

Description: Surviving against the Odds by S. Ann Dunham, Alice G. Dewey, Nancy I. Cooper President Barack Obamas mother, S Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who specialized in social and economic development in Indonesia. This book reflects Dunhams commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; and her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem-solving. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Read the foreword by Mara Soetoro-Ng President Barack Obamas mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had planned. Dunhams dissertation adviser Alice G. Dewey and her fellow graduate student Nancy I. Cooper undertook the revisions at the request of Dunhams daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The result is Surviving against the Odds, a book based on Dunhams research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesias population. Surviving against the Odds reflects Dunhams commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia.After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawaii to Soetoros home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawaii to attend school in 1971. Dedicated to Dunhams mother Madelyn, her adviser Alice, and "Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field," Surviving against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar. Focusing attention on the small rural industries overlooked by many scholars, Dunham argued that wet-rice cultivation was not the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia.Surviving against the Odds includes a preface by the editors, Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, and a foreword by her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, each of which discusses Dunham and her career. In his afterword, the anthropologist and Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of Surviving against the Odds, its relation to anthropology when it was researched and written, and its continuing relevance today. Notes An anthropological study by the mother of President Barack Obama Back Cover "Surviving against the Oddsis a work of very fine scholarship grounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, I learned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing (across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metallurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, and the remarkable welter of development schemes and projects in play during the long period of S. Ann Dunhams research. Dunham knew the arcane world of development very well and her account of it is fascinating and important."-Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the American Anthropological Association Author Biography S. Ann Dunham (1942–1995), mother of President Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng, earned her undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees, all in anthropology, from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dunham spent years working on rural development, microfinance, and womens welfare through organizations including USAID, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, the Indonesian Federation of Labor Unions, and Bank Rakyat Indonesia. Alice G. Dewey, an Indonesianist, is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. Nancy I. Cooper is Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. Maya Soetoro-Ng has a doctorate in international comparative education from the University of Hawaii and teaches high-school history in Honolulu. Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University. He is President of the Association for Asian Studies. Table of Contents Foreword / Maya Soetoro-Ng ix Editors Preface / Alice Dewey and Nancy Cooper xi Acknowledgments xxvii Supplementary Materials (a sampling of S. Ann Dunhams field notes, a letter, and maps) xxxi Introduction 1 The Socioeconomic Organization of Metalworking Industries 40 Kajar, a Blacksmithing Village in Yogyakarta 82 Relevant Macrodata 155 Government Interventions 196 Conclusions and Development Implications 249 Appendix 283 Notes 287 Glossary of Metalworking Terms 299 Afterword: Ann Dunham, Indonesia, and Anthropology—A Generation On / Robert W. Hefner 317 Bibliography 331 Index 345 Review "The greetings that the village women exchanged with Mom conveyed an intimacy that made clear they had fully taken each others measure. Their connection had been established to a sufficient degree for laughter to be easy. Mom had come to a real understanding with them, it seemed, and not just the women; she was welcomed and trusted by all. This made me proud, I remember, for many of the same reasons my pride swells at the sight of my brother, our president; Mom too moved with such ease through every world, and people opened up at the sight of her smile."--Maya Soetoro-Ng, daughter of S. Ann Dunham and sister of President Barack Obama, from the foreword "S. Ann Dunhams Surviving against the Odds bears witness to her knowledge of and affection for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The book also speaks legions about Dunhams integrity as a cultural anthropologist... By the mid-1980s Dunham had begun to see the audience for her work as made up of not just academics but Indonesians, aid workers, and foreign analysts whose findings affect the lives of ordinary Indonesians. Rather than go with the academic flow, Dunham stayed true to a research program requiring varied and rigorous methodologies, all in an effort to speak truth to power and policy making."--Robert W. Hefner, Boston University, president of the Association for Asian Studies, from the afterword "Surviving against the Odds is a work of very fine scholarship grounded in a deep understanding of Indonesia. Reading it, I learned a great deal about economic anthropology, blacksmithing (across a range of dimensions, from the supernatural to metallurgy), local life and labor in the Javanese village of Kajar, and the remarkable welter of development schemes and projects in play during the long period of S. Ann Dunhams research. Dunham knew the arcane world of development very well and her account of it is fascinating and important."--Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz, past president of the American Anthropological Association "A few years before her death, Barack Obamas mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunhams fieldwork has been published -- a fulfillment of her dream, courtesy of her daughter...Over a period of 14 years, Dunham visited and lived among Indonesian villagers. Her work challenged the prevailing view among social anthropologists of the time that Indonesian peasants were better off just cultivating rice...The result is Surviving the Odds, a study of blacksmithing in the village of Kajar, Indonesia." - NPR "Surviving against the Odds is a condensed version of Anns PhD on village industries in Java that she says she worked for almost two decades. In the end Ann decided to focus on just one of five crafts - bamboo, clay, leather, textile and blacksmithing - she had initially intended to cover in five villages she found specializing in these crafts. But even with blacksmithing as her "smaller topic", Ann ended up with a dissertation more than 1,000 pages long, finally submitted in 1992... Anns book - like her - is deeply empathetic. Full of evocative descriptions of the lives of villagers she worked with, it is a testament to her commitment to the development of lives of rural and marginalized peoples all around the world." - Julia Suryakusuma, The Jakarta Post Promotional An anthropological study by the mother of President Barack Obama Review Text Ingenious ... The unfolding of the narrative is genuinely eerie, but the richness of allusion and elegance of design makeStrange Bodiesas much an inquiry into language and identity as a high-concept literary thriller ... Moving as well as thought-provoking, as elegiac as it is gripping. Review Quote "To write a biography without mentioning the subjects name in the title is unusual, just as irregular, in fact, as publishing a serious work of anthropology, entitled Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia , with a portrait of the author splashed on the cover. But then the author of that academic book, the late Stanley Ann Dunham, an expert on the economics of Indonesian crafts, bore a startling resemblance to President Obama-the same long chin, the slight quizzical tilt of the head, the prominent eyebrows. Which is not surprising, since she was his mother. The scholarly book based on her Ph.D. thesis, which contains much excellent firsthand description of life in remote Javanese villages, is of great interest to specialists, and would probably have been picked up by a university press anyway." - Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books Promotional "Headline" An anthropological study by the mother of President Barack Obama Details ISBN0822346877 Author Nancy I. Cooper Short Title SURVIVING AGAINST THE ODDS Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822346877 ISBN-13 9780822346876 Media Book Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Village Industry in Indonesia Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Alice G. Dewey Format Hardcover Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-12-24 UK Release Date 2009-12-24 AU Release Date 2009-12-24 NZ Release Date 2009-12-24 US Release Date 2009-12-24 Pages 440 Series A John Hope Franklin Center Book DEWEY 338.4768209598 Illustrations 13 tables, 2 maps, 4 figures (tent.) Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161667763;

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