Work, Consumption and the Indonesian Crises in Western Flores

Author: Erb Maribeth  

Publisher: Brill

ISSN: 0308-8243

Source: Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Vol.28, Iss.2, 2000-01, pp. : 131-151

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Abstract

The political and financial turmoil in Indonesia over the past three years has affected Indonesians in various ways. This paper takes a comparative framework developed to illuminate changes in Euro-American society between the modem ethic of work and the postmodern aesthetic of consumption, to analyse the different ways people in Manggarai, Western Flores, reacted to the Indonesian crises.