http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13098
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“...In the puerile fantasy world concocted by Ann Dunham, the Third World was where all of the good people were. When she migrated to Jakarta with little Barry, she promptly interjected herself into the local Javanese community. She was enchanted by the Javanese culture and rejected her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, when his career with Mobile Oil began to advance. She refused to attend social gatherings with his co-workers, insisting that they were not her people.
Obama’s mother wouldn’t complete her doctoral dissertation until 1992, just a few years before her death. Her final work was the 1067 page tome, Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.
Blacksmithing in Indonesia is the exclusive province of males. How remarkable fervent feminist Ann Dunham would bestow so much time and effort to the study of a male dominated craft. According to Dewey, blacksmithing Indonesia style is something more than bending metal:
“It’s powerful, spiritually powerful. The smithy area is sacred; women couldn’t go into that area. The story is that blacksmiths forged human souls for the next generation. There’s a carving in one of the temples depicting one of the demi-god heroes as a blacksmith. It’s highly symbolic. You put offerings on the anvil. So you have a sacred craft that developed over some 2000 years.
In other words, the blacksmithing vocation, which so fascinated Barack Obama’s mother, is infused with magic and superstition.
However, here are excerpts that deal specifically with Ann Dunham and her time there. While it makes only one reference to Obama Jr (and Maya) on page iv, there is other smatterings of people she knew in the field while working on the dissertation that might know more ...
Peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia Excerpts
It also show yet ANOTHER name she used from at least 1982 until 1992 -- Ann Dunham Sutoro (different spelling than Soetoro)