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Vocabulary Building in Indonesian
An Advanced Reader
Häftad, 1993
526 kr
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An outstanding advanced text intended to complement and supplement Indonesian language materials now available. The author takes the student through a series of original essays and previously published material on a variety of subjects, not merely explaining grammatical and vocabulary matters, but …
Red Earth
A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation
Av Binh Tu Tran, David G. Marr
Häftad, 1985
200 kr
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Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics. The connection …
Language and Social Change in Java
Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity
Häftad, 1985
396 kr
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Errington explores linguistic evidence of social change among the traditional priyayi elite of Surakarta in south-central Java. Employing data from texts, interviews, observed speech, and questionnaires, he shows a progressive leveling in the language used to denote traditional status differences, …
Javanese
A Cultural Approach
Av Ward Keeler
Häftad, 1992
512 kr
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Foreign language lessons often provide translations into a foreign language of phrases students would normally use in their native language and cultural setting. Particularly when studying a non-Western language, such direct translation is very misleading. Students must instead learn the …
History of the Malay Kingdom of Patani
Häftad, 1985
254 kr
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This translation of Ibrahim Syukri's Sejarah Kerajaan Melayu Patani (SKMP) makes available a little known but important manuscript published privately ca. 1950 and printed in jawi (Malay written in a modified Arabic script). Shortly after its publication, the book was banned in both Thailand and …
Change and Continuity in Minangkabau
Local, Regional, and Historical Perspectives on West Sumatra
Av Lynn L. Thomas, Franz Von Benda-Beckmann
Häftad, 1986
403 kr
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Social scientists have long recognized many apparent contradictions in the Minangkabau. The world's largest matrilineal people, they are also strongly Islamic and, as a society, remarkably modern and outward looking.Focusing on Minangkabau proper, and treating several adjacent areas as well, this …
Report on Brunei in 1904
Häftad, 1987
367 kr
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In 1904 the British Protectorate of Brunei had reached the nadir of its fortunes. Reduced to two small strips of territory, bankrupt, and threatened with takeover by the Rajah of Sarawak (Sir Charles Brooke), Brunei received M. S. H. McArthur who was dispatched to make recommendations for Brunei's …
Studies in Austronesian Linguistics
Häftad, 1991
415 kr
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This volume consists of seventeen articles by scholars including Robert Blust, Paul Hopper, A. L. Becker, Sarah Bell, J. C. Catford, Talmy Givón, J. W. M. Verharr and John U. Wolff. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Chamorro, Malay, Old Malay, Javanese, Old Javanese, Indonesian, Niases, Loniu, and Niuean …
Running Amok
An Historical Inquiry
Häftad, 1988
371 kr
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Amok, one of the few Malay words commonly appearing in English, names a syndrome of unpredictable and indiscriminate homicidal behavior with suicidal intent. In tracing the development of this behavioral pattern, Spores examines historical data, including frequently colorful colonialist accounts of …
Mode in Javanese Music
Häftad, 1987
324 kr
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One of the most controversial aspects of Javanese gamelan music is its musical mode, pathet. From her experience as a performer of sindhenan, or female singing, Walton analyses the melodies and defines the basic laws of mode for sindhenan. She explains more convincingly than previous authors how …
Financing Local Government in Indonesia
Av Nick Devas
Häftad, 1989
360 kr
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Considering the size and importance of Indonesia, remarkably little has been published in the West about the society and government of that country. With over 160 million people, it is the fifth most populous country in the world. It is an archipelago of some 13,000 islands, stretching over 5,000 …
Military Ascendancy and Political Culture
A Study of Indonesia's Golkar
Häftad, 1989
318 kr
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Most of the earlier studies on the Indonesian political party, Golkar, tend to view the organization solely as an electoral machine used by the military to legitimize its power. However, this study is different in that it considers Golkar less an electoral machine and more as a political …
Communism, Religion, and Revolt in Banten in the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1990
388 kr
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Twice in this century popular revolts against colonial rule have occured in the Banten district of West Java. These revolts, conducted largely under an Islamic leadership, also proclaimed themselves Communist. Islamic Communism is seemingly a paradox. This is especially the case when one considers …
Indigenization of Pali Meters in Thai Poetry
Av Thomas Hudak
Häftad, 1990
447 kr
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During the Ayutthaya period in Thailand (1350-1767), a group of meters based upon specific types and arrangements of syllables became a significant part of the Thai literary corpus. Known as chan in Thai literature, these meters, and the stanzas created from them, were adapted and transformed so …
Not Out of Hate
A Novel of Burma
Av Ma Ma Lay, William H. Frederick
Häftad, 2019
362 kr
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Not Out of Hate—published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939–42—was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices for change. A journalist by trade, Lay applied her straightforward observational style with compassion …
Voice of the Night
Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar
Häftad, 1993
447 kr
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Chairil Anway (1922–1949) was the primary architect of the Indonesian literary revolution in both poetry and prose. In a few intense years he forged almost ingle-handedly a vital, mature literary language in Bahasa Indonesia, a language which formally came to exist in 1928. Anway led the way for …
Tale of Prince Samuttakote
A Buddhist Epic from Thailand
Av Thomas Hudak
Häftad, 1993
414 kr
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Thai poets produced epics depicting elaborate myths and legends which intermingled the human, natural, and supernatural worlds. One of the most famous of these classical compositions is the Samuttakhoot kham chan, presented here in English for the …
Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia
Essays in Interpretation
Av D.M. Roskies
Häftad, 1993
414 kr
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How does the language of poetry conspire with the language of power? This question is at the heart of this volume which deals with Indonesia and the Philippines in the early modern and post-1945 periods. These two nations have been shaped by the forces of nationalism, revolution, and metropolitan …
Memoirs of an Indo Woman
Twentieth Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad
Av Marguérite Schenkhuizen, Lizelot Stout van Balgooy
Häftad, 1994
525 kr
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The memoirs of Marguérite Schenkhuizen provide an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who lived in the former Dutch East Indies. The memoirs provide vignettes of Indonesian life, both rural and urban, as seen …
Beyond the Archipelago
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1995
365 kr
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A collections of 70 poems from one of Malaya's leading poets, that depict longing, loneliness, modernization, and insights in Malaysian culture.
Dictionary of Indonesian Islam
Häftad, 1995
360 kr
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Drawing from an extensive list of writings about Indonesian Islam that have appeared over the past fifteen years, Federspiel defines approximately 1,800 terms, phrases, historical figures, religious books, and place names that relate to Islam and gives their Arabic sources.This dictionary will be …
Violence and the Dream People
The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Häftad, 1995
367 kr
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Violence and the Dream People is an account of a little-known struggle by the Malayan government and the communist guerrillas, during the 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency, to win the allegiance of the Orang Asli, the indigenous people of the peninsular Malaya. The author argues that the use of force by …
Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca, 1641–1795
Av Dianne Lewis
Häftad, 1995
298 kr
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In 1500 Malay Malacca was the queen city of the Malay Archipelago, one of the great trade centers of the world. Its rulers, said to be descendents of the ancient line of Srivijaya, dominated the lands east and west of the straits. The Portuguese, unable to compete in the marketplace, captured the …
Imagining Indonesia
Cultural Politics and Political Culture
Av Jim Schiller, Barbara Martin-Schiller
Häftad, 1997
403 kr
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Increased interest in Indonesian culture and politics is reflected in this work's effort to advance and reject various notions of what it means to be Indonesian. It also addresses perceptions of how Indonesia's citizens and state officials should interact. Because, in recent times, the Indonesian …
Eight Prison Camps
A Dutch Family in Japanese Java
Häftad, 1996
349 kr
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Eldest daughter of eight children, the author grew up in Surakarta, Java, in what is now Indonesia. In the months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, however, Dutch nationals were rounded up by Japanese soldiers and put in internment camps. Her father and brother were sent to separate men's …
Language, Power, and Ideology in Brunei Darussalam
Häftad, 1996
371 kr
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Contrary to modern theories of developing nations, Brunei Darussalam, which has a very high rate of literacy, is also one of the few countries where the traditional elite retains absolute political power. Professor Gunn's comprehensive study, which assesses the state's efforts to implement national …
Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam
Av Peter W. Martin, Conrad Ozóg m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
371 kr
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The oil-rich sultanate of Brunei Darussalam is located on the northern coast of Borneo between the two Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah. Though the country is small in size and in population, the variety of language use there provides a veritable laboratory for linguists in the fields of …
Japanese Empire in the Tropics
Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941–1945
Av Ooi Keat Gin
Häftad, 1998
958 kr
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Although the Japanese interregnum was brief, its dramatic commencement and equally dramatic conclusion represented a watershed in the history of the young state of Sarawak.In recent years, there has been a groundswell of interest in the war years, culminating in an attempt at reassessment of the …
Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Burma
Paradigms, Primary Sources, and Prejudices
Häftad, 1998
400 kr
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After careful re-reading and analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically accurate, are actually late-nineteenth and …
Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra
Randai and Silek of the Minangkabau
Häftad, 1998
367 kr
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Randai, the popular folk theater tradition of the Minangkabau ethnic group in West Sumatra, has evolved to include influences of martial arts, storytelling, and folk songs. Theater and Martial Arts in West Sumatra describes the origin, development, and cultural background of randai and highlights …
