Publications
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The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
(2013-01-04)
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in ...
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
(1971)
Indonesia
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam
(1981)
The Darul Islam rebellion, striving for the establishment of an Islamic State of Indonesia, broke out in several areas since 1949. The author describes each of these Darul Islam rebellions and identifies some of the factors ...
Kana Sera, zang der zwangerschap
(1955)
Indonesia
The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
(1971)
Indonesia
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713
(2016)
Performances of Peace: Utrecht 1713 aims to rethink the significance of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) by exploring the nexus between culture and politics. This book is available in Open Access.
Oost-Soemba
(1940)
Indonesia
The Ever-Reviving Phoenix
(2024)
For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 ...
Who Benefits from the Sanitized Language of Violence?
(2024)
Language is not neutral; it determines, and is determined, by perspective. This volume explores the role of an influential vocabulary of war, sanitised language, the language that seeks to clean up the appearance of events ...
Corruption as an Empty Signifier
(2013-01-05)
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially ...
Daily Life for the Common People of China
(2018-10-28)
In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, ''chaoben'' 抄本, for understanding the lives of China’s semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets ...
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
(2015)
This book examines large-scale land acquisitions, or
Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology
(1978)
This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account ...
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance
(2018)
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences ...
Unilateral Sanctions in International Law and the Enforcement of Human Rights
(2022)
Are unilateral economic sanctions legal under public international law? How do they relate to the existing international legal principles and norms? Can unilateral economic sanctions imposed to redress grave human rights ...
New Perspectives on Imagology
(2022)
With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary ...
Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World
(2017)
The twelve studies contained in this volume discuss some key-aspects of citizenship from its emergence in Archaic Greece until the Roman period before AD 212, when Roman citizenship was extended to all the free inhabitants ...
A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
(2011)
After publishing <i>A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World </i> (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of ...
From Laṅkā Eastwards; The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature
(2011)
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through ...
Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua; A configurational analysis comparing Kamoro and Asmat
(2010)
This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, ...