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Abstract
In this paper, I work to rethink notions of comparison and area studies by viewing my ethnographic work in Indonesia through the lens of theories developed by anthropologists working in the Caribbean region. In bringing ‘East Indies’ and ‘West Indies’ together in this way, I explore the possibility of reconfigured networks of citation, collaboration and interchange that might help anthropology respond in new ways to contemporary dynamics of globalisation.
Notes
1. As Mintz and Price (Citation1976, 88) note, in West Indies scholarship, at least, this metaphor originates with Herskovits (Citation1990 [1941], 81).
2. Mintz and Price (e.g., Citation1976, 55–56) do emphasise, however, that there are cases where it seems clear that a ‘retention’ or ‘survival’ has occurred.
3. I do not address lesbian women's subjectivities in this paper; see Boellstorff Citation2005 and Citation2007 and works cited therein.
4. See Boellstorff Citation2002, 33–34 for a more detailed discussion of this passage and its implications.