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On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also trying to come to grips with the meaning of "independence." Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was experienced on the outskirts of the nation among Karo Batak villagers in the rural highlands of North Sumatra. Based on extensive interviews and conversations with Karo veterans, Rifle Reports interweaves personal and family memories, songs and stories, memoirs and local histories, photographs and monuments, to trace the variously tangled and perhaps incompletely understood ways that Karo women and men contributed to the founding of the Indonesian nation. The routes they followed are divergent, difficult, sometimes wavering, and rarely obvious, but they are clearly marked with the signs of gender. This innovative historical study of nationalism and decolonization is an anthropological exploration of the gendering of wartime experience, as well as an inquiry into the work of storytelling as memory practice and ethnographic genre.

Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) --- Karo (Indonesian people) --- Karo-Batak --- Batak (Indonesian people) --- Ethnology --- History. --- Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) --- Indonesia --- Endonèsie --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Indonesië --- Indonesya --- Indonezia --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Indūnīsīyā --- Induonezėjė --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Republika Indonezija --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- United States of Indonesia --- Yinni --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Република Индонезия --- Индонезия --- Інданезія --- إندونيسيا --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- インドネシア --- インドネシア共和国 --- Dutch East Indies --- North Sumatra (Indonesia) --- Sumatra, North (Indonesia) --- Vaṭacumattirā Mānilam (Indonesia) --- Vaṭa Cumattirā (Indonesia) --- Sumatra Utara (Indonesia) --- Sumut (Indonesia) --- S.U. (Indonesia) --- SU (Indonesia) --- Daerah Tingkat I Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) --- Propinsi Sumatera Utara (Indonesia) --- Government of North Sumatra Province (Indonesia) --- History --- Personal narratives, Indonesian. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- cultural memory. --- decolonization. --- dutch colonialism. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic history. --- gender issues. --- gendered history. --- historians. --- independence. --- indonesia. --- indonesian independence. --- karo batak. --- local histories. --- men and women. --- nation formation. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- north sumatra. --- personal histories. --- photographs. --- postcolonialism. --- postwar era. --- sovereignty. --- storytelling. --- veterans. --- villagers. --- wartime experiences.