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143 “‘You two will become great friends’”: Obama, Dreams from My Father, 64.
143 Obama’s account of his father’s Christmas visit: Ibid., 67–69.
146 baking cookies was not at the top: Ibid., 75.
149 Her most important market informants: Alice G. Dewey, Peasant Marketing in Java, xiv.
150 “the best and most comprehensive study”: Koentjaraningrat, Javanese Culture, 176.
154 Her interest was function: Bronwen Solyom, Symposium on Ann Dunham, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, September 12, 2008.
155 “was interested in the place where vision meets execution”: Maya Soetoro-Ng, foreword to S. Ann Dunham, Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, ix–x.
156 course in entrepreneurship: Interview with Mendl W. Djunaidy, associate dean, East-West Center, October 7, 2008.
157 “I immediately said no”: Obama, Dreams from My Father, 76–77.
CHAPTER SIX. IN THE FIELD
Most of the material in this chapter comes from Ann Dunham’s field notes, proposals, papers, and drafts, and the unpublished version of her dissertation, “Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.” I also drew on Garrett and Bronwen Solyom’s writings on the Javanese kris; correspondence between Ann Dunham and Alice Dewey, and a 1974 edition of Guide to Java by Peter Hutton and Hans Hoefer. I used material from interviews with Clare Blenkinsop, Nancy Cooper, Alice Dewey, Michael Dove, Maggie Norobangun, President Obama, John Raintree, Khismardani S-Roni, Taluki Sasmitarsi, Maya Soetoro-Ng, the Solyoms, Sumarni and Djaka Waluja, and from e-mails written by Haryo Soetendro.
172 Clifford Geertz confessed: Richard Bernstein, “Anthropologist, Retracing Steps After 3 Decades, Is Shocked by Change,” The New York Times, May 11, 1988.
173 part-time unpaid cottage-industry workers: S. Ann Dunham, “Women’s Work in Village Industries on Java,” unpublished paper from the 1980s.
175 But Ann intended to expand the concept: Ann Dunham, “Occupational Multiplicity as a Peasant Strategy,” early draft of dissertation.
176 sounds of forging: S. Ann Dunham, “Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds,” unpublished dissertation, 1992, 499.
183 One scene of Pak Sastro and his wife: Ibid., 556–560.
184 “men of Kajar are fated”: Ibid., 495.
185 “Whenever villagers have a problem”: Ibid., 533.
185 “There are numerous stories of kerises rattling about”: Dunham, “Women’s Work in Village Industries on Java,” 41.
187 In the acknowledgments: Dunham, unpublished dissertation, vii–viii.
193 In a haunting scene: Obama, Dreams from My Father, 94–96.
CHAPTER SEVEN. COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
The account of Ann’s years in Semarang and her work on the Provincial Development Project is based on interviews with Clare Blenkinsop, Alice Dewey, Carl Dutto, Don Flickinger, Bruce Harker, Ann Hawkins, Richard Holloway, Sidney Jones, Dick Patten, Nancy Peluso, John Raintree, Jerry Mark Silverman, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Kadi Warner, and Glen Williams. For the brief history of early credit programs, I also drew on The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia by Marguerite S. Robinson and on Progress with Profits: The Development of Rural Banking in Indonesia by Richard H. Patten and Jay K. Rosengard. The final paragraph, about the Ford Foundation, is based on documents in the Ford Foundation archives.
209 “they believed that poor village women”: Letter from Ann Sutoro to Hanna Papanek, July 2, 1981.
211 one-third of the 486 units: Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia, 115–118; Patten and Rosengard, Progress with Profits, 22–30.
212 providing not only capital but training: Ibid., 31–35.
215 “Many hours of my childhood”: Maya Soetoro-Ng, foreword to S. Ann Dunham, Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, ix.
216 “would be superb”: Memorandum to the File from Sidney Jones,