| List of Figures | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| A Note on the Use of Foreign Terms and Proper Names | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | A Neighborhood Comes of Age | 24 |
| Ch. 2 | Hierarchy and Contradiction: Merchants and Aristocrats in Colonial Java | 52 |
| Ch. 3 | The Specter of Past Modernities | 87 |
| Ch. 4 | Gender and the Domestication of Desire | 134 |
| Ch. 5 | The Value of the Bequest: Spiritual Economies and Ancestral Commodities | 171 |
| Ch. 6 | The Mask of Appearances: Disorder in the New Order | 206 |
| Ch. 7 | Disciplining the Domestic Sphere, Developing the Modern Family | 225 |
| Notes | 255 |
| Glossary | 281 |
| Bibliography | 283 |
| Index | 295 |