Publications
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Contemporary Indonesian Film; Spirits of Reform and ghosts from the past
(2012)
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and ...
Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
(2012)
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency ...
Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
(2011)
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on ...
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta
(2012)
Musical worlds in Yogyakarta is an ethnographic account of a vibrant Indonesian city during the turbulent early post-Soeharto years. The book examines musical performance in public contexts ranging from the street and ...
Bilingual Europe
(2015-03-13)
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until ...
Modern Slavery
(2014-10-28)
In Modern Slavery – A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons Dominika Borg Jansson discusses why, despite international anti-trafficking efforts, there are so few trafficking convictions worldwide. ...
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
(2016)
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of ...
Ekagi-Dutch-English-Indonesian Dictionary
(1969)
Indonesia
Time Distortions in Mind
(2015)
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2015)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
The Sa'dan-Toraja
(1979)
Indonesia
Banggaisch adatrecht
(1947)
Indonesia
Cultuur als antwoord
(1973)
Indonesia
Bima Swarga in Balinese Wayang
(1981)
The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story ...
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
(2008)
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, ...
Loetoeng Kasaroeng
(1949)
Indonesia
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Van isolatie naar integratie
(1963)
Een Engelstalige uitgave van Van isolatie naar integratie is verschenen als Deel 80 (1977, ISBN 9789024719624) in de reeks Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Nineteenth-Century Borneo
(1955)
Indonesia