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Authors: |
Wee, Vivienne
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Title: |
Material dependence and symbolic independence: constructions of Melayu ethnicity in island Riau, Indonesia
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Date: |
1988
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Source: |
Ethnic diversity and the control of natural resources in Southeast Asia
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Place of Publication: |
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Publisher: |
Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan
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Abstract: |
In this chapter I follow Bordieu (1977) in arguing for a comprehensive economics that would take into account both material and symbolic capital. In the context of this argument, the symbolic economy is, to use Bourdieu's (1977:171) words, "the institutionally organized and guaranteed misrecognition" of the material economy. As the epigraph above indicates, it is through such misrecognition that the symbolic economy legitimates the material economy from which it originates. I propose to apply this argument to some ethnographic observations of certain island communities in the Indonesian province of Riau, where I have been doing research since 1979.
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4/27/2015
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Editors: |
Rambo, A. Terry
Hutterer, Karl L.
Gillogly, Kathleen
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Volume: |
32
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Page Start: |
197
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Page End: |
226
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Series Title: |
Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, The University of Michigan
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