Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Wolters, O. W. Early southeast asia : selected essays / O.W. Wolters ; edited by Craig J. Reynolds. Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University c2008.
This is an important work, though not for reasons one might suspect. It is a collection of scholarly essays on early Southeast Asian history and culture, all of [...]

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State of authority : the state in society in Indonesia / Gerry van Klinken and Joshua Barker, editors. Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, c2009.
This monograph is part of a larger, “revisionist” trend in the scholarship on post-colonial Indonesia. Whereas in the past, the bulk of Western-language scholarship on Indonesia depicted the State as [...]

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Ida Bagus Made : the art of devotion / Kaja McGowan … [et al.]. Ubus, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia : Ratna Wartha Foundation, c2008.
This volume was published in conjunction with the Ida Bagus Made exhibition, organized by the Puri Lukisan Museum to commemorate its 50th anniversary and to celebrate the distinguished career of Ida Bagus Made, [...]

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Warren, James Francis. Pirates, prostitutes and pullers : explorations in the ethno- and social history of Southeast Asia / James Warren. Crawley : University Of Western Australia Press, 2008.
The essays in this collection touch upon or expand on all the major themes and subjects presented in James Warren’s three best-known monographs: The Sulu zone, 1768-1898 [...]

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Sejarah yang memihak : mengenang Sartono Kartodirdjo / editor, M. Nursam, Baskara T. Wardaya, Asvi Warman Adam. Yogyakarta : Ombak bekerjasama dengan Rumah Budaya TeMBI, 2008.
By their very nature, festschriften vary widely in terms of quality and scholarly value. It often depends, too, on the stature of the individual to whom the festschrift is presented. [...]

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Presiden RI ke II Jenderal Besar H.M. Soeharto dalam berita. [Jakarta] : Antara Pustaka Utama, 2008.
Students of contemporary Indonesian politics and history will find this impressive 20 volume collection extremely useful. It brings together for the first time more than three decades of Indonesian news clips and articles on Suharto and the New Order. The [...]

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Lewis, Jeff. Bali’s silent crisis : desire, tragedy, and transition / Jeff Lewis and Belinda Lewis. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.
The image of Bali as an exotic, tropical idyll is deeply rooted in the Western popular consciousness. And yet, this image is often challenged and undone by reality. The 2002 Bali bombings (and subsequent [...]

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Photographies East : the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Rosalind C. Morris. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
This is a sophisticated and expertly written study of the history of photography as a form of art, material culture, and representation in East and Southeast Asia. Rosalind Morris sets [...]

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For profit and prosperity : the contribution made by Dutch engineers to public works in Indonesia, 1800-2000 / editors, Wim Revesteijn and Jan Kop. Zaltbommel : Aprilis ; Leiden : KITLV Press, c2008.
The present volume, an English translation of the edited volume Bouwen in de Archipel : burgerlijke openbare werken in Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië 1800-2000, [...]

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The Indonesia reader : history, culture, politics / edited by Tineke Hellwig and Eric Tagliacozzo. Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
This volume goes far towards filling an important lacuna in the extant body of scholarship on Southeast Asia. It is a primer, a vast collection of literary texts, paleographic inscriptions, sailing instructions, newspaper clippings, personal [...]

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