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Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, is the heavily redacted dissertation of S. Ann Dunham, the late mother of President Barack Obama. Dr. Dunham completed her 1,043-page dissertation, focusing on black-smithing in Central Java, based on fourteen years of field research, in 1992. She formulated plans for its revision for publication but died tragically of cancer in 1995 before she could carry them out. That task was picked up in 2005 and completed last year by Alice Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper. Dr. Cooper had been a fellow graduate student of Dr. Dunham’s in the University of Hawaii Anthropology Department, and she did her own dissertation fieldwork in the same part of South-Central Java as Dr. Dunham, in the district of Gunung Kidul. Alice Dewey, now emeritus, was Ann Dunham’s principal advisor in the University of Hawaii Anthropology Department. Professor Dewey was a legendary mentor...end blah blah blah
“she did her own dissertation fieldwork in the same part of South-Central Java as Dr. Dunham”
Gee, that’s pretty convenient, isn’t it?