Cleanliness and Culture: Indonesian Histories

Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on filth and the combat of dirt, focus on Europe. In Cleanliness and Culture attention shifts to the tropics, to Indonesia, in colonial times as well as in the present.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 906718375X
• ISBN13: 9789067183758
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"