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Faith and the State
A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia
Inbunden, 2013
2635 kr
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Faith and the State offers a comprehensive historical development of Islamic philanthropy--zakat (almsgiving), sedekah (donation) and waqf (religious endowment)-- from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia. It shows a rivalry …
Workers, Unions and Politics
Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s
Inbunden, 2014
2834 kr
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In Workers, Unions and Politics. Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s, John Ingleson revises received understandings of the decade and a half between the failed communist uprisings of 1926/1927 and the Japanese occupation in 1942. They were important years for the labour movement. It had to recover …
Between Harmony and Discrimination: Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok
Inbunden, 2014
2706 kr
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Between Harmony and Discrimination explores the varying expressions of religious practices and the intertwined, shifting interreligious relationships of the peoples of Bali and Lombok. As religion has become a progressively more important identity marker in the 21st century, the shared histories …
Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies
A Biography of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822 – 1914)
Inbunden, 2014
2686 kr
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In this biography Nico J.G. Kaptein studies the life and times of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822-1914), the most prominent Muslim scholar of his era in the Netherlands East Indies. During his long career, he provided guidance to the Muslim community and from 1889 onwards simultaneously served the colonial …
Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and its Music
From Southeast Asian Village to Global Movement
Inbunden, 2016
2996 kr
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Fighting arts have their own beauty, internal philosophy, and are connected to cultural worlds in meaningful and important ways. Combining approaches from ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, performance theory and anthropology, the distinguishing feature of this book is that it highlights the …
Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters
Situating Scriptural Practices
Av Richard Fox
Inbunden, 2016
2088 kr
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The Materiality and Efficacy of Balinese Letters examines traditional uses of writing on the Indonesian island of Bali, focusing on the power attributed to Balinese script.The approach is interdisciplinary and comparative, bringing together insights from anthropological and philological …
Cambodia’s Muslims and the Malay World
Malay Language, Jawi Script, and Islamic Factionalism from the 19th Century to the Present
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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In this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia’s Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia’s Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the …
Alcohol in Early Java
Its Social and Cultural Significance
Av Jiří Jákl
Inbunden, 2021
2177 kr
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In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the production, trade, and consumption of alcohol in Java before 1500 CE, and discusses a whole array of meanings the Javanese have ascribed to its use. Though alcohol is extremely controversial in …
Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume One
Pusaka as Documented Heritage
Inbunden, 2023
2110 kr
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This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of royal courts in Southeast Asia. Royal courts have long been sites for the creation, exchange, maintenance, and development of myriad forms of performing arts and other distinctive …
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
A Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes
Av Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
Inbunden, 2024
2244 kr
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Established in 1979 in the premises of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (TSGM) has had a turbulent history, mirroring Cambodia's social and political transformations. The book brings together academics and practitioners from multiple fields who offer novel …
Imagined Racial Laboratories
Colonial and National Racialisations in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2023
2217 kr
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Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It …
Performing Arts and the Royal Courts of Southeast Asia, Volume Two
Pusaka as Performed Heritage
Inbunden, 2024
2204 kr
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This publication brings together current scholarship that focuses on the significance of performing arts heritage of royal courts in Southeast Asia. The contributors consist of both established and early-career researchers working on traditional performing arts in the region and abroad. The first …
Phnom Penh
A City Shaped by Spirituality
Inbunden, 2026
1579 kr
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Prompted by lived experience, this book presents spatial impacts of spirituality in the city of Phnom Penh through a diverse array of text, photographs, and drawings. It introduces the prevalent hybrid spirituality of Khmer culture that is spatially manifest in three leading ways: the topographical …
