Women and mediation in Indonesia / / edited by Sita van Bemmelen.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 152
• TeilnehmendeR: Bemmelen, Sita van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : KITLV,, [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 152.; VKI Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; Map /; Introduction /; Joint Brokerage of Spouses on Islamic Ambon /; Indonesian Women as (Economic) Mediators /; Women's Economic Mediation /; Mediating Women /; Industrialization and the Family /; West Dani Women as Mediators /; Educated Toba Batak Daughters as Mediators in the Process of Elite Formation (1920-1942) /; Mediating Roles of the Traditional Birth Attendant in Indonesia /; The Dukun Pengantin /; The Female Preacher as a Mediator in Religion /; Maintaining Rukun for Javanese Households and for the State /; Women as Mediators in VOC Batavia /; The Nyai in Colonial Deli /; The Contributors /; Summaries of Other Workshop Papers /; Glossary /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900448776X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sita van Bemmelen.

This volume is the product of an international workshop on Women and Mediation, organized in Leiden in 1988 by the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) and the Werkgroep Indonesische Vrouwenstudies (WIVS), a Dutch interdisciplinary study group on Indonesian women. The book contains a selection of fourteen contributions-sociological, anthropological, and historical-ranging geographically 'from Sabang to Merauke' from the Toba Batak (North Sumatra) to the Dani (Irian Jaya). Loosely centred around the concept of mediation, many of the articles include new data derived from archival research and fieldwork. One cluster of articles concentrates on theoretical questions concerning the concept of mediation. Another cluster deals with brokerage in the economic and social fields. A third cluster focuses on mediation in the cultural domain, which many extend to mediation between different 'cultures'(elite-agrarian, Western-Indonesian) or between the human and the suprahuman world, between macrocosm and microcosm. Mediation by women has been overlooked not only in the social sciences in general but also in the field of women studies in particular. The present volume explores the theme of mediation by women in general, and in Indonesia in particular.