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Not Writing as Not Seeing, Not Recording: Embodied Racism in Indonesia -- Reflections on Fieldwork since 1974

The author, an anthropologist, discusses how she is at last confronting her oversights in publications about Indonesia. In doing so, she is dealing with racialized ideologies and their corrosive, real-world consequences for persons such as Indonesian Chinese individuals. This highly personal essay reminds us that the discursive power of ideas to contest hegemonies relies on basic acts of experiencing, acknowledging and recording.