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“Japanese Time” and the Mica Mine: Occupation Experiences in the Central Sulawesi Highlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1996

Lorraine V. Aragon
Lorraine V. Aragon
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East Carolina University
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Abstract

During World War II, Japanese soldiers forced highlanders in western Central Sulawesi to operate a mica mine. Questions about the mine's purpose are clarified by examining mica's strategic uses for wartime electronics. Accounts of the occupation by highlanders contribute to understanding changes in their post-war religious and ethnic identities.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 27 , Special Issue 1: The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia , March 1996 , pp. 49 - 63
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1996

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