Pekajangan : religion, textile production and social organization in a Javanese village
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1977
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Price, Susanna Kitty
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The research on which this study is based was
initially prompted by an interest in Javanese batik and
weaving. I wished to describe how, in the context of a
village community, such articles were made and to review
their importance in community life. Pekajangan, the
village of North Central Java in which I lived for six months
from June to December 1976, is a particularly interesting
community. Bearing a long tradition of batik-making and
weaving its inhabitants regard textile production rather
than farming, as the main occupational category. Two
important features of this tradition have been the Pekajangan
Textile Co-operative (the Koperasi Batik Pekajangan founded
in 1937) and the PekaJangan Branch of the Muslim Reform
movement Muhamrnadiyah (formed in 1922). Both have influenced
the growth of this tradition and consequently the overall
structural development of Pekajangan. In this thesis I
endeavour to describe the way this has occurred.
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