Indonesia, Etc.

Exploring the Improbable Nation

Elizabeth Pisani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2014
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
9780393088588 (ISBN)

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An entertaining and thought-provoking portrait of Indonesia: a rich,
dynamic, and often maddening nation awash with contradictions.

Jakarta tweets more than any other city on earth, but 80
million Indonesians live without electricity and many of its
communities still share in ritual sacrifices. Declaring independence
in 1945, Indonesia said it would “work out the details
of the transfer of power etc. as soon as possible.” With over
300 ethnic groups spread across 13,500 islands, the world’s
fourth most populous nation has been working on that
“etc.” ever since. Bewitched by Indonesia for twenty-five
years, Elizabeth Pisani recently traveled 26,000 miles around
the archipelago in search of the links that bind this impossibly
disparate nation. Fearless and funny, Pisani shares her
deck space with pigs and cows, bunks down in a sulfurous
volcano, and takes tea with a corpse. Along the way, she
observes Big Men with child brides, debates corruption and
cannibalism, and ponders “sticky” traditions that cannot be
erased.

Elizabeth Pisani has lived in Indonesia at various times over the past twenty-five years, originally as a journalist and later as an HIV epidemiologist. The author of The Wisdom of Whores and Indonesia Etc., she is based in London.

Zusatzinfo	25 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 244 mm
Gewicht	595 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
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	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
ISBN-13	9780393088588 / 9780393088588
Zustand	Neuware