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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.
Pengantar dan bab Rachmi Larasati 2013 tentang bagaimana Orde Baru menghapus tubuh penari perempuan berlabel 'Gerwani' setelah 1965 dan menggantinya dengan penari 'bersih' terlatih negara yang membawakan tradisi sama sebagai warisan nasional. Studi autoetnografis tari dan genosida.
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- Date
- 2013
- Creator
- Larasati
- Document type
- book chapter (scholarly monograph (excerpt: introduction and one chapter); performance studies / critical ethnography with autoethnographic narrative)
- Language
- English
- Perspective
- Scholarship
- Source role
- secondary
- Country
- USA
- Period
- 1999–present
- Source archive
- ProQuest Ebook Central via UCalgary · source link
- Access
- University of Minnesota Press e-book accessed through ProQuest Ebook Central via the University of Calgary library (library-licensed, not open access; ebookcentral.proquest.com docID 30391...; download stamp 'Created from ucalgary-ebooks on 2026-10-14'). Retrieved 2026-10-13/14 for the Gerwani project; excerpt limited to the Introduction and Chapter 2 within licence print limits. Library-licensed or subscription copy: show metadata and summary only; link to the source.
- Citation (APA)
- Larasati, R. D. (2013). The dance that makes you vanish: Cultural reconstruction in post-genocide Indonesia. University of Minnesota Press. [Excerpt: Introduction, "Dancing on the Mass Grave," pp. xiii–xxii, and Chapter 2, "What Is Left: The Fabricated and the Illicit," pp. 31–59]
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- 02 Secondary Sources/2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism/Larasati (2013) - The Dance That Makes You Vanish, Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia (Introduction and Chapter 2).pdf
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- Good (0.957) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
- Collection
- 02 Secondary Sources › 2.4 Literature, Film, Music and Memory Activism
- Summary basis
- condensed from full annotation
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