Susan Rodgers
Author · 1 book
Susan Rodgers (1949) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Asian Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Her 1978 PhD from the University of Chicago concerned images of the modern in Angkola Batak ritual oratory. Since 1985 her research has dwelt on the linked politics and aesthetics of southern Batak print literatures and literacies, from the late Dutch colonial period through New Order (1965-1998) times. Among her publications are Power and gold; Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (1985) Indonesian religions in transition, edited with Rita S. Kipp (1987), Telling lives, telling history; Autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia (1995), and Sitti Djaoerah; A novel of colonial Indonesia (1997), a translation of another of Soetan Hasoendoeta's books.
