Gender Transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia

@article{Blackwood2005GenderTI,
  title={Gender Transgression in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia},
  author={E. Blackwood},
  journal={The Journal of Asian Studies},
  year={2005},
  volume={64},
  pages={849 - 879}
}
  • E. Blackwood
  • Published 2005
  • Sociology
  • The Journal of Asian Studies
THE PRACTICE OF “RITUAL TRANSVESTISM” appears to have been widespread throughout island Southeast Asia from pre-Islamic times. Accounts of ritual transvestic figures appear in colonial and court documents; mythological literature; and ethnohistoric records produced by colonial officials, missionaries, and anthropologists. These accounts draw portraits of individuals who in the course of priestly or shamanic functions “switched” genders or took on “gender-ambiguous” roles as they interceded with… Expand
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