If that is a challenging idea, then that is what Boellstorff delivers: a whole suite of thoughtful insights into the way ethnography may be practised and how globalisation and media effects may be re-thought. For Indonesianists the ethnography works through and with other important ethnographies written about Indonesian cultures over the last forty years and takes us to a new place in a confident, richly researched national ethnography. Tom Boellstorff's ethnography of gay and lesbi sexualities in Indonesia is a gift to Indonesianists and students of the intricate and often confusing effects of globalisation. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005, 282 pp. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
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