[Anthropgrad] Anthrop Seminar listing

[Fay castles]

9.30am - 11.00am Seminar Room A - Coombs Building


*/Dutch women in Bali: contested notions of citizenship, race and gender 
in Dutch-Bali Intimacies/*
Dr Ana Dragojlovic


Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Bali, 
this talk situates transnational intimate relationships between Dutch 
women and Balinese men in contexts of Balinese social relations and 
post-colonial histories. My focus is Dutch women who came to Bali as 
tourists but married Balinese men and remained in Bali. These Dutch-Bali 
relationships complicate a simple notion cultural mixing, particularly 
for women who trace a part-Indonesian ancestry to colonial times. Their 
imaginations of Bali thus already informed their identity and 
motivations for travel. By marrying Balinese men, Dutch women enter into 
dense webs of kinship relations that include expectations for a ‘proper 
wife’ and daughter-in-law as well as the acceptance of polygamy. As 
Dutch women enter a Balinese kinship system, their transnational 
intimate encounters become contested terrain in which their 
subjectivities are negotiated in relation to their Balinese husbands, 
in-laws, gender relations, and their own desires for Bali.

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Fay Castles
Departmental Administrator
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
+61-2-612 52162  Fax: +61-2-612 53023
Fay.Castles at anu.edu.au
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