Gerwani Archive
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2 itemsTopic: art, literature and music ✕Theme: Organisation and activism ✕Place: East Java ✕
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GA-02803 1963 M. L. Huber rel C licensed

INDONESIA - a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber)

Indonesia: a new state with an ancient civilization (M. L. Huber, 1963)

Travel essay by M. L. Huber in Women of the Whole World, 1963, on a car journey from Jakarta toward East Java and Bandung, with a sweeping history of Indonesian civilisation, colonialism, the Round Table agreement and 1957 nationalisations, in a pro-Sukarno-era socialist-bloc framing. Gerwani is not mentioned.

GA-02974 2013 rel A licensed

The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia (Larasati, introduction and ch. 2, 2013)

The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia (Larasati, 2013)

Rachmi Larasati's 2013 introduction and chapter on how the New Order erased the dancing bodies of women labelled 'Gerwani' after 1965 and replaced them with state-trained 'clean' dancers performing the same traditions as national heritage. Autoethnographic study of dance and genocide.