The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. — VII, 177 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica 9). Life is stranger than fiction. Considerably so. Judge from this: The Javanese develop a feeling towards their afterbirth, wbich is not thrown away at birth in the heathenish Western way, but which gets a decent burial and has the name: ari-ari, younger brother (- sister) . I know of a Javanese...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. — XIII, 651 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica 1). Text and translation of a hitherto unpublished chronicle of the most important Malay colony in Borneo. Hikayat Bandjar is a highly valuable body of material for the study of Indonesian cultural history. The author gives a textual and philological analysis of its contents. In the introduction he...
Brill, 1976. — v, 273 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3. Southeast Asia. Band 2. Religions. Abschnitt 2). Die altindonesischen Religionen sind volks- oder stammesgebunden: es sind ,,Volks- und Stammesreligionen". Mit dieser Bestimmung ist im Grunde schon das Wesen der altindonesischen Religionen umrissen. Jede ist einer bestimmten ethnischen Einheit verhaftet,...
Brill, 1977. — v, 120 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3. Southeast Asia 7). Although the following contribution is focussed on Indonesia proper, we will also take into consideration other regions of the Indonesian Culture Area. Geographically this covers mainly that which at present consists of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Chronologically we will deal...
Brill, 2010. — x, 389 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 170). The first comprehensive history of Balinese politics from the middle of the 17th century till the end of Dutch colonial rule in 1942. Based on extensive research in colonial archives in the Netherlands and Indonesia, a variety of Balinese historical narratives,...
Brill, 2007. — xiii, 634 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 232). Indigenous Indonesian Catholics increased in number from 27,000 to nearly 550,000 between 1902 and 1942. At first scattered only through Minahasa, the Kai islands and Flores, after four decades Catholic centres were established in most of the archipelago, and there...
Brill, 2010. — xxviii, 434 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 257). The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the first contemporary ethnography of the Ata Sikka of Flores. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnologists of...
Brill, 2016. — xx, 826 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 305). 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...
Brill, 2016. — xii, 242 p. — (Brill's Southeast Asian Library 6). 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 perspectives. Scholars...
Brill, 2007. — x, 123 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica, Volume: 33). The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, growth, and expansion of Gowa during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this period...
Brill, 2011. — x, 357 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica, Volume: 35). Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific historical information about a wide variety of topics, including the births and deaths of notable individuals, the actions of rulers, the spread of Islam,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015. — 950 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3. Southeast Asia 23). There are many excellent published collections of the indispensable Dutch documents for the History of Indonesia in the seventeenth century. However all of these have a Batavia-centred VOC view of the Archipelago and beyond, and show the relations of the Company with states...