Materializing piety: Gendered anxieties about faithful consumption in contemporary urban Indonesia

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 617-637

  Jones, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Materiality; Consumption; Fashion ; Gender; Indonesia; Islam; Piety

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349234246     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01275.x     Document Type: Article

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