Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

by L. Ayu Saraswati

Book Overview

In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836642
• ISBN13: 9780824836641
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"