Rita Smith Kipp

Biographic Data

ID77347
NAMERita Smith Kipp
GIVEN NAMESRita Smith
FAMILY NAMEKipp
SIGNATUREKIPP R S
AFFILIATIONSKenyon College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS96
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT8
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX6

  • Traces of Trauma: Cambodian Visual Culture and National Identity in the Aftermath of Genocide

    Boreth Ly, David P Chandler et al.BOOKTraces of Trauma2019

    How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Bor…

  • Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ‘Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia

    Francis R Bradley, David P Chandler et al.BOOKForging Islamic Power and Place2017

    Following a defeat by Siam in 1786, the Patani community experienced a period of displacement that resulted in many resettling elsewhere in the Malay world and Mecca. This marked the denouement for the old order of orangkaya in the region and the rise of a new moral order. Led by Daud bin Abd Allah al-Fatani, the ulama employed a knowledge network to spread handwritten texts bearing new ideas on the place of Islam in the community. Throughout the…

  • Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos

    Simon Creak, David P Chandler et al.BOOKEmbodied Nation2017

    This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions—from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state—through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even fro…

  • Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia

    Gregory M Simon, David P Chandler et al.BOOKCaged in on the Outside2017

    Caged in on the Outside is an intimate ethnographic exploration of the ways in which Minangkabau people understand human value. Minangkabau, an Islamic society in Indonesia that is also the largest matrilineal society in the world, has long fascinated anthropologists. Gregory Simon's book, based on extended ethnographic research in the small city of Bukittinggi, shines new light on Minangkabau social life by delving into people's interior lives, …

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

    L Ayu Saraswati, David P Chandler et al.BOOKSeeing Beauty, Sensing Race in…2017

    In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of A…

  • The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong

    Molland, Sverre Molland et al.BOOKPerfect Business? Anti-Trafficking…2017

    For those at the high end of the trafficking chain, the sex trade is an alluring and lucrative business: the supply of girls is constant, the costs of operations are low, and interference from law enforcement is weak to non-existent. Anti-trafficking organizations and governments commonly appropriate such market metaphors of supply and demand as they struggle with the moral-political dimensions of a business involving trade, labor, prostitution, …

  • Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia

    C Allerton, David P Chandler et al.BOOKPotent Landscapes2017

    The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways "lively," re-traveling routes bet…

  • In Pursuit of Progress: Narratives of Development on a Philippine Island

    Hannah Bulloch, Hannah C M Bulloch et al.BOOKIn pursuit of progress2017Cited by: 2

    How are meta-narratives of development entangled in people's identities and life trajectories? How do they inhabit people's histories, their understandings of their place in the world, and their dreams for the future? The idea of development has been deconstructed and scrutinized as a "Western" metaphor ordering global difference and as a banner under which diverse schemes for societal improvement find legitimacy and common purpose. But how is de…

  • Forging Islamic power and place: The legacy of Shaykh Dāʼūd bin ʻAbd Allāh al-Faṭānī in Mecca and Southeast Asia

    David P Chandler, Francis R Bradley et al.BOOKForging Islamic Power and Place2016

    Forging Islamic Power and Place / charts the nineteenth-century rise of a vast network of Islamic scholars stretching across Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to Arabia. Following the political and military collapse of the tiny Sultanate of Patani in what is now southern Thailand and northern Malaysia, a displaced community of scholars led by Shaykh D?'?d bin 'Abd All?h al-Fa?n? regrouped in Mecca. In the years that followed, al-Fa?n? composed …

  • Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace

    Ann Marie Leshkowich, David P Chandler et al.BOOKEssential Trade2014

    My husband doesn't have a head for business, complained Ng?c, the owner of a children's clothing stall in B?n Thanh market. Naturally, it's because he's a man. When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family m…

  • Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia

    C Allerton, David P Chandler et al.BOOKPotent Landscapes2013

    The Manggarai people of eastern Indonesia believe their land can talk, that its appetite demands sacrificial ritual, and that its energy can kill as well as nurture. They tell their children to avoid certain streams and fields and view unusual environmental events as omens of misfortune. Yet, far from being preoccupied with the dangers of this animate landscape, Manggarai people strive to make places and pathways "lively," re-traveling routes bet…

  • Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia

    David P Chandler, L Ayu Saraswati et al.BOOKSeeing Beauty, Sensing Race in…2013

    In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. This book explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later, to the impact of Dutch colonialism and the wartime occupation of Japan; and finally, in the post-colonial period, to the popularity of American culture. Th…

  • Keane, Webb: Christian Moderns

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEAnthropos2008

    Anthropos , Seite 266 - 267

  • Indonesia in 2003: Terror's Aftermath

    Rita Smith KippARTICLEAsian Survey2004

    Several bombings that targeted international capital or the Indonesian government put a chill on tourism and foreign investment, but despite high-profile investigations and trials, doubts that these were home-grown acts of Islamic terrorism remain pervasive. Military action in Aceh, continuing corruption, and lack of progress on legal reform suggest to many that post-New Order reformasi has stalled

  • Two Views of the Minahasa; or, Whatever Happened to the Poor, Heathen Bushnatives

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2004References: 26

    The representation of other cultures invariably entails the presentation of selfportraits, in that those people who are observed are overshadowed or eclipsed by the observer. As a consequence the substantial presences of others are ignored or lost from view in the drama of the self seen in the imbroglio of contact. . . . What is fashioned and refashioned is a euphemization of power in that materials which ostensibly purport to describe other peop…

  • The Nationalist Credentials of Christian Indonesians and the Legacy of Colonial Racism

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEItinerario2003References: 28

    The Dutch civil servants, missionaries, business people, and others living and working in the Dutch East Indies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries looked homeward to a society in process of being ‘pillarized’ into socio-religious blocks. Some scholars have observed how the new nation that arose from that colony, Indonesia, developed a similar kind of structure called aliran (literally, currents or streams) best known to scholars, perha…

  • Women at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy

    Rita Smith Kipp, Peggy Reeves SandayARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • Colonial 'Reformation' in The Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist2001

    Colonial 'Reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995. Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 279 pp., tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, index

  • Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society

    Rita Smith Kipp, W KeaneARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1998

    Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society. WEBB KEANE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997; 297 pp. (paper). Anakalang is a dry, out of the way place in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia. Here, where subsistence agriculture is the norm, neither trade nor wages play much part in people's lives. Local affairs take place in a realm largely untouched by the reach of the Indonesian state. Although most …

  • Merit and Blessing in Mainland Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

    Rita Smith Kipp, Cornelia Ann Kammerer et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998Cited by: 2

  • Balinese Worlds

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1998

    Balinese Worlds. Fredrik Barth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. + 370 pp., references, index, figures

  • Fantasizing the Feminine In Indonesia./"Male" and "Female" In Developing Southeast Asia

    Open AccessRita Smith KippARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1998

    Fantasizing the Feminine In Indonesia. Laurie J. Sears. ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. xvi. 349 pp., illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, contributors, index."Male" and "Female" In Developing Southeast Asia. Wazir Jahan Karim. ed. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995. xiv. 267 pp., notes, references, contributors, index

  • The Batak: Peoples of Sumatra. Achim Sibeth

    Rita Smith KippARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1997

  • Telling lives, telling history: Autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia; Aku dan Toba

    Rita Smith Kipp, Susan Rodger et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java

    Rita Smith Kipp, Nancy K FloridaARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996Cited by: 7