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Ideology and Social Structure in Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Joel S. Kahn
Affiliation:
University College London

Extract

In this article I want to discuss a number of issues that have arisen out of my research into the structures of underdevelopment in Indonesia. First, some concepts that have been used in the analysis of Indonesian social structure will be examined. I shall show that these concepts, used in many cases as analytical tools are, in fact, aspects of peasant ideology. As such they should be objects of analysis rather than tools for analysis. The three concepts discussed in the first section of this paper are: the aliran, or vertical alliances described by Geertz and other members of the Modjokuto research team; ethnicity; and patron–clientage.

Type
Decolonization and the Response of Colonial Elites
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1978

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