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symbolic system of the Giman of South Halmahera
Av Dirk Teljeur
Inbunden, 1990
1693 kr
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Der Totenkult der Ngadju Dajak in Süd-Borneo (2 vols.)
Mythen zum Totenkult und die Texte zum Tantolak Matei
Av Hans Schärer
Häftad, 1966
470 kr
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Mythen zum Totenkult und die Texte zum Tantolak Matei.
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja
The Practice of Everyday Life of a South Sulawesi Highland Community in Indonesia
Inbunden, 2013
1631 kr
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The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge …
Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java
Colonial Relationships in Trade and Finance, 1800-1942
Inbunden, 2014
2655 kr
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Trading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce. During the period 1800-1942 …
Under Construction
The Politics of Urban Space and Housing during the Decolonization of Indonesia, 1930-1960
Inbunden, 2013
1737 kr
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Freek Colombijn examines the social changes in Indonesian cities during the process of decolonization. That process had major repercussions for urban society. These social changes are studied from the angle of urban space in general, and the provision of housing in particular. This provides fresh …
Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia
Studies in Spatial Anthropology
Av G. Domenig
Inbunden, 2014
2642 kr
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In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were …
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960
Inbunden, 2014
2123 kr
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Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal …
Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010
Inbunden, 2015
3456 kr
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Catholics in Independent Indonesia: 1945-2010 concludes Steenbrink’s three volume historical account of Catholicism in Indonesia with a detailed report of the survival and growth of this minority religion in Muslim Indonesia since its independence in 1945.Colonial Catholicism survived in the …
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
A Longue Durée Perspective
Av David Henley
Inbunden, 2015
1398 kr
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In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and …
Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia
Inbunden, 2015
1329 kr
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Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; …
Turkic-Turkish Theme in Traditional Malay Literature
Imagining the Other to Empower the Self
Inbunden, 2015
1487 kr
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The Turkic-Turkish Theme in Traditional Malay Literature is the first detailed study of the representation of the Turkic peoples and Ottoman Turks in Malay literature between the 14th–19th centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Vladimir Braginsky uncovers manifold metamorphoses and diverse …
Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society
Bugis Practices of Sexuality and Marriage
Inbunden, 2016
1358 kr
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Gender Relations in an Indonesian Society offers a comprehensive ethnography of Bugis marriage through an exploration of gender identity and sexuality in this bilateral, highly competitive, hierarchical society.Nurul Ilmi Idrus considers the fundamental concept of siriq (honour; shame) in relation …
Storytelling in Bali
Av H. Geertz
Inbunden, 2016
2257 kr
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In Storytelling in Bali, Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It …
Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois
Inbunden, 2016
2579 kr
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In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil …
Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi
The Search for Powers of Blessing from the Other World of the Gods
Av C.W. Buijs
Inbunden, 2016
1253 kr
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In Personal Religion and Magic in Mamasa, West Sulawesi, Kees Buijs describes the traditional culture of the Toraja’s, which is rapidly vanishing. The focus is on personal religion as it has its centre in the kitchen of each house. In the kitchen and also by the use of magical words and stones the …
Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000 - 2017
Inbunden, 2019
1762 kr
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In Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts …
Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period
The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)
Av Farabi Fakih
Inbunden, 2020
1653 kr
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In Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period. The study looks into the structural and ideological state formation …
Music of the Baduy People of Western Java
Singing is a Medicine
Inbunden, 2020
2834 kr
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Music of the Baduy People of Western Java: Singing is a Medicine by Wim van Zanten is about music and dance of the indigenous group of the Baduy, consisting of about twelve-thousand people living in western Java. It covers music for rice rituals, for circumcisions and weddings, and music for …
Change and Identity in the Music Cultures of Lombok, Indonesia
Inbunden, 2021
3010 kr
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This longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok’s history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, …
Shaping a Dutch East Indies
François Valentyn’s VOC Empire
Inbunden, 2023
2244 kr
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In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this …
Storied Island
New Explorations in Javanese Literature
Av Ronit Ricci
Inbunden, 2023
1430 kr
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Javanese literature is one of the world’s richest and most unusual literary traditions yet it is little known today outside of Java, Indonesia, and a handful of western universities. With its more than a millennium of documented history, its complex interactions over the centuries with literature …
Under the Spell of the Batur Volcano
The Colonization of Highland Bali by Lowland Courts
Inbunden, 2025
1624 kr
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The "World Temple" Pura Ulun Danu Batur embodies the still active volcano and its lake. It constitutes the linchpin between the visible and invisible world that has been a contested centre of power by rulers for centuries. The study challenges the claim of the aboriginal-egalitarian Mountain …
Empire of Improvisation
Taxation and Governance in Colonial Indonesia
Inbunden, 2026
1613 kr
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Throughout colonial Indonesia, a common method to determine a boy’s taxable age was to loop a rope around the chest. If the boy’s head fitted through this loop, his chest was still too small and he was too young; if not, he owed the government tax.Analysing unique archival sources from across …
Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
Av B. J. Boland
Häftad, 1971
551 kr
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With deep interest I have followed the Indonesian people's fight for freedom and independence from 1945 onwards. This interest has come to be centred in particular on the question of how religions, especially Islam, were involved in this struggle, and what role they would fulfil in the new …
Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
Häftad, 1972
426 kr
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This title addresses the Khilafat Movement in India, a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims of India to influence the British government not to abolish the Ottoman Caliphate.
Het Sultanaat Palembang 1811-1825
Een bijdrage tot de studie van de Maleise geschiedschrijving
Häftad, 1975
646 kr
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Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
Essays in Honour of Jan Van Baal
Av W. E. a. Van Beek, J. H. Scherer
Häftad, 1975
551 kr
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This Festschrift is dedicated to Prof. Dr. J. van Baal on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht. The essays presented here are written by fellow scholars in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of anthropology. In …
Logic of the Laws
A Structural Analysis of Malay Language Legal Codes from Bengkulu
Häftad, 1975
512 kr
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This study is directed towards providing basic background material for the understanding of South Sumatran social organisation. To this end, four legal codes from the first half of the nineteenth century are presented and analysed. The method used in the analysis is a modification of that used by …
Curaçao and Guzmán Blanco
A Case Study of Small Power Politics in the Caribbean
Häftad, 1975
158 kr
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A Case Study of Small Power Politics in the Caribbean.
