Surviving against the odds
Subtitle: village industry in Indonesia
By: S. Ann Dunham ; edited and with a preface by Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper  ; with a foreword by Maya Soetoro-Ng and an afterword by Robert W. Hefner
Contributors: Dewey, Alice G.; Cooper, Nancy I.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780822346876
Description: "President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia ... Surviving Against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar."--Jacket.
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral), University of Hawaii, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-360) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The socioeconomic organization of metalworking industries; title: Kajar, a blacksmithing village in Yogyakarta; title: Relevant macrodata; title: Government interventions; title: Conclusions and development implications.