well, that's a good improvement, then! a lot of stuff I've read is from the '60s. also, it's one of the reasons I don't like Ben Anderson. And yeah, it doesn't surprise me that Pemberton tried to get away from that.
also, like I said, pop-anthropologists - a lot of times poli scientists with a very antiquated reading on Indonesia trying to make a cultural argument.
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Date: 2009-04-26 01:37 am (UTC)also, like I said, pop-anthropologists - a lot of times poli scientists with a very antiquated reading on Indonesia trying to make a cultural argument.