2 2 2005 127 158 * / remembering interpretive labor Abstract Blending oral and written history, this article portrays politics of difference and memory found in intimate domestic service relationships in the North Sumatran city of Medan, Indonesia. By examining two sets of oral histories as told by former employer and domestic workers, this ** University of California, Santa Cruz Email ytsai@ucsc.edu 2005 6 11 2005 10 17 2005 / / Ang Buiskool Wee
128 article demonstrates how these narrators perform class and racial identities via processes of remembering and story telling. It also shows how memory production through food and other tactile memories provides an inroad to the history of the construction of Chinese Indonesian identity in Medan. In sum, seeing remembering as an interpretive labor, this article examines the intimate relations between history, personal memory, class and racial formation, and thus provides a multi layered interpretive framework for the studies of intra household dependency and domestic work. Keywords Domestic Service, Chinese Indonesian, Identity Formation, Oral History, Tactile Memory 2004 10 Dave Medan batik 1 Dave Dave 1 angbau, kongsi
Dave Where is my baby! Where is my baby! Dave 岀 Dave Dave 强 care by proxy 2 2003 10 2004 12 1~2 2 orang Indonesia hoanna orang Tionhoa, orang Cina denlan
130 / Dave Dave Dave social life tactile memories 3 3 Ann Laura Stoler 2002 Marcel Proust madeleine [ ] Benjamin 1969 202, 214 Stoler the non eventful and the senses Stoler excess tactile memories, memories of the concrete Stoler p164 70 p164 8, p198 201 p170 p194 6
remembering interpretive labor lapcuai siucu wayang ikan asing 4 2004 11 Ang whiskey Ang Ahsam Ahsam Ang Ang my ahsam 4 2004 11 18
132 Ang Ang Ang ahsam Ang Hailam 5 Ang Ang cabokan 6 Ang cabokan Ang cabokan 1870 Deli Ang plantation estate Teochiu Gongfu Hakka Ang 7 Ang cabokan Ang slave cabokan Ang 5 2004 11 18 6 Cabokan muijai Maria Jaschok 1988 Rubie Watson 1991 muijai Watson p233 1998 1992 p38 9 Ca bau kan, cabokan concubine maid nyai ` see Taylor 1996 nyai cabokan cabokan nyai cabokan 7 Ang cabokan Anthony Reid 1930 Sumatra Reid 1970 310
8 Ang Ang Slave girls slave girls 40 50 YL Ang slave girls slave girls slave girls slave girls YL ahsam Ang ahsam 9 1870 1930 Deli coolie Dollar land of Deli Green gold 10 Hennesy Ang Deli In the olden days Ang Deli asham Ang ahsam cabokan Ang 8 2004 11 18 9 2004 11 18 10 Reid 1979, p38 43, 58 9 Stoler 1995 1985 p14 5
134 11 Ang Ang Ang Ang YL Ang [ ] Ang cabokan slave girls cabokan YL Ang angpau! slave girls muitsai slave girls temquat temquat Ang cabokan temquat temquat 12 Ann Stoler non event 11 2004 11 24 12 2004 11 24
centered 13 Ang cabokan cabokan Ang racialized body Ang boundary marker Ang Ang cabokan ahsam Hailam Ang 14 Ang Ang Ang remembering Ang cabokan 13 3. 14 Ang Ang
136 ahsam 15 cabokan ahsam Ang Ang cabokan ahsam Ang Ang purification Ang 16 Ang Ang slave girls Khoe Tjin Tek 15 Ang cabokan servants Ang servants servants cabokan Ang muitsai ahsam Ang cabokan servants servants ahsam cabokan 24 Ang Ang Ang 16 Ang Ang Ang narrative effect
slave girls Tjong A Fie Tjong A Fie slave girls 17 Tjong A Fie Khoe Tjin Tek Major 1911 1942 18 Ang Khoe Tjong Ang 戯 Ang coolie food ahsam 19 cabokan 20 Ang cabokan ahsam Ahsam Ang Ang 17 2004 11 24 18 Major Tjong A Fie Tjong Yong Hian 1850 1911 Tjong A Fie Tjong A Fie Khoe Tjin Tek 1898 1942 Buiskool 2004 19 2004 11 18 Ang 20 Bagan si api api terasi Butcher 1996 1907 Bagan si api api 4,400,000 19% p96
138 Ang carnivalesque Ang ahsam ahsam Ang ahsam boundary creature 21 Ang Ang boundary marker boundary object Ang ahsam ahsam ahsam 22 Ang ahsam YL Ang 1950 21 / boundary creatures or boundary objects Bowker and Star 1999 / / / / 22 Ang ahsam ahmah? Ang ahsam Constable 1997 Chin 1998 ahmah Constable ahmah 1930 1950 Constable ahmah ahmah p40 42
YL Ang YL Ang Ang Ang 1930 Deli Ang 23 24 Ang Ang Deli orang Indonesia= orang asli = pribumi orang cina= orang asing =non pri 1950 25 23 24 Ang 25 Charles Coppel 1987: 31-51 J.A.C. Mackie 1976.
140 Smail 1968 Airriess 1995 91 Ang Ang 1970 90 21 26 Ang Aceh Wee Ang Wee Langdang 27 Wee Pin Wee Wee Wee Wee Wee Wee Wee Pin 26 Chinese Chinese 27 Langdang Langdang langdang 3 5 langdang 1 3 3 langdang 3 3 1 lanadang 3 langdang 1 1 1 3 langdang langdang langdang langdang langdang Langdang 1 6 langdang
Wee 28 Wee Wee Wee Mega Mega Wee Wee Banda Aceh Padang Sibolga 29 Wee baktaoka 30 Wee nyonya 28 2003 11 4 29 baba nyonya Padang Sibolga 30 Cina Padang Cina Sibolga Baktaoka baktaoka Cina Padang baktao bakka Cina Padang bak bataoka baktaoka
142 31 ikan pepes sarong YL = Wee = kan kan 32 YL Wee ~~~~ 33 Wee Wee Wee 31 2004 6 7 32 Kan Kan? 33 2004 5 25
34 Wee Wee 1957 Wee Wee Wee langdang langdang Wee Wee 歩 Wee 2004 10 Wee langdang Wee langdang Wee langdang 34 Wee Wee
144 Wee Wee langdang WF langdang (= ) WF= [ ] YL WF supermarket kan YL WF kan aja (= ) [ ] kuno = 35 Wee Wee WT YL WT Wee 35 2004 11 4
WT! YL WT 36 1950 66 1959 37 B r u n e r 1 9 6 1, Cunningham 1958 Wee Ang Ang Wee Wee Ang Ang Wee k a d a n g k a d a n g b a i k, kadang kadang sombong! Ang Wee langdang langdang langdang Wee langdang ahsam Ang langdang Wee 36 2004 11 5 37 1958 1959 PP 10 Mackie 1976 82 6
146 Ang Wee Wee Wee Jl. Sun Yat Sen 38 Padang Bulan Kesawan Padang Bulan Kesawan becak WF 3000 1000 kan = becak = YL 3000 1000 WF = becak [ ] YL SY!! Mangga Dua Jakarta kan Pekan baru 38 Jl. Sun Yat Sen 1965 Jl. Sun Yat Sen
Jadi kan 39 Wee ` 40 triumphant narrative [ ] Jadi Jadi = 39 2004 11 5 Jadi ( ) 40
148 jadi [ ] 41 Wee Wee Wee = Wee Wee Wee 41 2004 11 4
42 Wee nyonya Wee cabokan ahsam Wee feminization of housework Wee 2004 Ang Wee langdang 42 re Sinicization 1900 Wee Ben Anderson 1998 323 Pheng Cheah 1998, 2000
150 i n t i m a c y d e s i r e d a n d feared Ang Ang Ang dis engaged intimacy as nostalgia Wee intimacy overcome and re inscribed Judith Butler performance achieved Ang Wee 43 1998 < > 43 Marita Sturken 2001 34.
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