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The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploratn of the liv of gay men Indonia, the world’s fourth most populo natn and home to more Mlims than any other untry. Based on a range of field methods, explor how Indonian gay and lbian inti are shaped by natnalism and globalizatn. Yet the se…

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THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO: SEXUALY AND NATN INDONIA

The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploratn of the liv of gay men Indonia, the world's fourth most populo natn and home to more Mlims than any other untry. Based on a range of field methods, explor how Indonian gay and lbian inti are shaped by natnalism and globalizatn. Yet the se of gay and lbian Indonians also pels to ask more fundamental qutns about how we ci when two thgs are "the same" or "different." The book th exam the possibili of an "archipelagic" perspective on samens and difference. Tom Boellstorff exam the history of homosexualy Indonia, and then turns to how gay and lbian inti are lived everyday Indonian life, om qutns of love, sire, and romance to the plac where gay men and lbian women meet. He also explor the rol of mass media, the state, and marriage gay and lbian inti. The Gay Archipelago is unual takg the whole natn-state of Indonia as s subject, rather than the ethnic groups ually studied by anthropologists. It is by lookg at the natn cultural terms, not jt polil terms, that inti like those of gay and lbian Indonians bee visible and unrstandable. In dog so, this book addrs qutns of sexualy, mass media, natnalism, and morny wh implitns throughout Southeast Asia and beyond. * the gay archipelago *

The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploratn of the liv of gay men Indonia, the world’s fourth most populo natn and home to more Mlims than any other untry. Based on a range of field methods, explor how Indonian gay and lbian inti are shaped by natnalism and globalizatn. Yet the se of gay and lbian Indonians also pels to ask more fundamental qutns about how we ci when two thgs are “the same” or “different.

Tom Boellstorff exam the history of homosexualy Indonia, and then turns to how gay and lbian inti are lived everyday Indonian life, om qutns of love, sire, and romance to the plac where gay men and lbian women meet. He also explor the rol of mass media, the state, and marriage gay and lbian inti. The Gay Archipelago is unual takg the whole natn-state of Indonia as s subject, rather than the ethnic groups ually studied by anthropologists.

It is by lookg at the natn cultural terms, not jt polil terms, that inti like those of gay and lbian Indonians bee visible and unrstandable. Wner of the 2005 Ruth Benedict Prize, Society for Lbian and Gay Anthropologists, Amerin Anthropologil Associatn.

THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO

Tom Boellstorff. The Gay Archipelago: Sexualy and Natn Indonia. Prceton and Oxford: Prceton Universy Prs, 2005. 282 pag. Keh * the gay archipelago *

The islands that pose the natn of Indonia are home to a number of ethnic groups and diverse same-sex practic that ma the regn a source of amic tert over the twentieth century, yet until Boellstorff's rearch, the have been generally analyzed as rual and profsnal exprsns, or s of often romanticized sexual ease, rather than studied as forms of sexual inty per there are Indonians who now publicly intify as “gay” yet who are not bldly followg a global gay inty is, acrdg to Boellstorff, evince of the Soeharto New Orr regime's most succsful natn-buildg efforts.

Gays Indonia are first and foremost natnal, acrdg to Boellstorff.

"The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploratn of the liv of gay men Indonia, the world's fourth most populo natn and home to more Mlims than any other untry. Yet the se of gay and lbian Indonians also pels to ask more fundamental qutns about how we ci when two thgs are "the same" or "different.

THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO : SEXUALY AND NATN INDONIA

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Gay Archipelago was published The Gay Archipelago on page 216. * the gay archipelago *

" The book th exam the possibili of an "archipelagic" perspective on samens and Boellstorff exam the history of homosexualy Indonia, and then turns to how gay and lbian inti are lived everyday Indonian life, om qutns of love, sire, and romance to the plac where gay men and lbian women meet. He also explor the rol of mass media, the state, and marriage gay and lbian Gay Archipelago is unual takg the whole natn-state of Indonia as s subject, rather than the ethnic groups ually studied by anthropologists.

TOM BOELLSTORFF. THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO: SEXUALY AND NATN INDONIA [PDF]

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He is thor of A Cocince of Dir: Anthropology, Queer Studi, Indonia, edor of Speakg Queer Tongu: Globalizatn and Gay Language, and edor chief of Amerin Anthropologist.

Openg to Gay and Lbi Worlds. The Postlonial State and Gay and Lbi Subjectivi. The Gay Archipelago.

CHAPTER EIGHT. THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO

The Gay Archipelago: Sexualy and Natn Indonia. In The Gay Archipelago, Tom Boellstorff scrib his own rponse to this challenge, as he negotiated a way of nceptualizg the liv of the gay and lbi Indonians he me to know the urse of rearch a number of different lotns across Indonia.

THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO (ENGLISH)

For Boellstorff, the implitns of the "dubbg" bat yield a means of negotiatg the impasse between two nflictg domant unrstandgs of the gay and lbi subject posns he was enunterg his fieldwork.

On the other was a termed assertn of the thentic, the ia that gay and lbi subject posns were a "veneer over a eper digenons, " and as such reprented a tactil "queerg" of global palism. The Gay Archipelago: Sexualy and Natn Indonia. Click here for the Indonian translatn of The Gay Archipelago.

“A pneerg ethnography of the natnal landspe (read Archipelago), Tom Boellstorff offers a new sp on the lol and the global, suppli a rehg new readg of gay subjectivi, and through metaphor, livers a richly embroired, lguistilly textualized ntributn to the lerature on sexualy one Islamic natn”–Geofey C. ”–Matthew Kennedy, Gay & Lbian Review Worldwi. “The Gay Archipelago is an important and timely discsn and analysis of how natn, belongg, sire, subjectivy and geography all tersect Indonia.

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