Lost in Mall —— An Ethnography of Middle-Class Jakarta in the 1990s

----- 迷失在商场：上世纪90年代雅加达中产阶级民族志

ISBN: 9789067183116 出版年：2011 页码：309 Lizzy van Leeuwen Brill

In this study, based on extensive anthropological fieldwork throughout the 1990s, an "emerging new middle class" is examined as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Despite a global orientation and a taste for democracy, its members seemed to have internalized the New Order along with some lingering late-colonial notions as their guidelines for life. How "new" was this new middle class anyway? Lifestyle and material culture practices in the suburb of Bintaro Raya—in public space as well as in the intimacy of living rooms—illustrate the everyday ambiguity of people who appear to be trapped in their imagined middle-classness: they were "lost in mall".