Patricia Spyer: 1 book
The Memory of Trade
Modernity’s Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2000
The Memory of Trade is an ethnographic study of the people of Aru, an archipelago in eastern Indonesia. Central to Patricia Spyer’s study is the fraught identification of Aruese people with two imaginary elsewheres—the ‘Aru’ and the ‘Malay’—and the fissured construction of community...
