The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (World Readers) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0822344246 ISBN 13: 9780822344247

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2009

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Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a larger Muslim population than any other. The Indonesia Reader is a unique introduction to this extraordinary country. Assembled for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the Reader includes more than 150 selections: journalists' articles, explorers' chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, speeches, and more. Many pieces are by Indonesians; some are translated into English for the first time. All have introductions by the volume's editors. Well-known figures such as Indonesia's acclaimed novelist Pramoedya Ananta Toer and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz are featured alongside other artists and scholars, as well as politicians, revolutionaries, colonists, scientists, and activists. Organized chronologically, the volume addresses early Indonesian civilizations; contact with traders from India, China, and the Arab Middle East; and the European colonization of Indonesia, which culminated in centuries of Dutch rule. Selections offer insight into Japan's occupation (1942-45), the establishment of an independent Indonesia, and the post-independence era, from Sukarno's presidency (1945-67), through Suharto's dictatorial regime (1967-98), to the present Reformasi period. Themes of resistance and activism recur: in a book excerpt decrying the exploitation of Java's natural wealth by the Dutch; in the writing of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904), a Javanese princess considered the icon of Indonesian feminism; in a 1978 statement from East Timor objecting to annexation by Indonesia; and in an essay by the founder of Indonesia's first gay activist group. From fifth-century Sanskrit inscriptions in stone to selections related to the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 tsunami, The Indonesia Reader conveys the long history and the cultural, ethnic, and ecological diversity of this far-flung archipelago nation.

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Tineke Hellwig is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of In the Shadow of Change: Images of Women in Indonesian Literature and a co-editor of Asian Women: Interconnections. Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 and editor of Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree.

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"With selections including scholarly pieces, manifestoes, interviews, speeches, and inscriptions, this volume captures the long sweep of the Indonesian archipelago's history while emphasizing its spectacular diversity. This is a "Reader" that deserves to be read."--Rudof Mrazek, University of Michigan

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THE INDONESIA READER

HISTORY, CULTURE, POLITICS

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Contents

Acknowledgments.................................................................................................ixIntroduction....................................................................................................1I Early Histories...............................................................................................13The Kutei Inscriptions in Borneo, Anonymous.....................................................................17The Shadow of India, Upendra Thakur.............................................................................20The Genesis of Indonesian Archaeology, R. P. Soejono............................................................27Javanese Inscriptions, Himansu Bhusan Sarkar....................................................................34What Was Srivijaya? George Coeds...............................................................................37Srivijaya Revisited, Michel Jacq-Hergoualc'h....................................................................44Arab Navigation in the Archipelago, G. R. Tibbetts..............................................................48Viewing the Borobudur, Jan Poortenaar...........................................................................54In Praise of Prambanan..........................................................................................56The Nagarakrtagama, Mpu Prapaca................................................................................58Images Arjuna and Kresna........................................................................................61II Early Modern Histories.......................................................................................63Ibn Battuta at Pasai, Ibn Battuta...............................................................................67Chinese Muslims in Java, H. J. de Graaf and Th. F. Pigeaud......................................................70Portuguese Sources on Products and the Monsoons, Robert Nicholl.................................................75The First Dutch Voyage to the Indies, 1596, Willem Lodewijcksz..................................................80The Web of Batik................................................................................................85An Englishman in Banten, Edmund Scott...........................................................................87A "Harem" in Aceh...............................................................................................92Contract with Banjarmasin, Anonymous............................................................................94General Missives of the voc, Anonymous..........................................................................96Negara: The Theatre State in Bali, Clifford Geertz..............................................................99III Cultures in Collision.......................................................................................105The Tuhfat al-Nafis, Raja Ali al-Haji Riau......................................................................109The Hikayat Abdullah, Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi...........................................................113The La Galigo as Bugis History, Sirtjo Koolhof..................................................................115The Babad Dipanegara in Java, Peter Carey.......................................................................121Sasak Literature of Lombok, Geoffrey Marrison...................................................................125Max Havelaar, Multatuli.........................................................................................128A Naturalist Climbs a Mountain, Alfred Russel Wallace...........................................................133Surveilling the Arabs, Consulate Officials......................................................................137A Pioneer of Women's Rights, Raden Ajeng Kartini................................................................140Chinese Coolies to Sumatra, William Pickering...................................................................146IV Through Travelers' Eyes......................................................................................149Visiting Banjarmasin, Daniel Beekman............................................................................153The Lure of Spice in the Moluccas...............................................................................159An Englishman in New Guinea, Thomas Forrest.....................................................................161Letters from Chinese Merchants to Batavia, Leonard Bluss.......................................................165Pirates on the Java Sea, George Earl............................................................................173Colonial Geography in Kei and Flores, C. M. Kan.................................................................177Bugis Ships of Sulawesi.........................................................................................179Traversing the Interior of Palembang, H. H. van Kol.............................................................181The Zoology of the Indies, L. F. de Beaufort....................................................................184The Indonesian Hajj in Colonial Times...........................................................................190V High Colonial Indies..........................................................................................193Chinese Traders in the Villages, M. R. Fernando and David Bulbeck...............................................197Is Opium a Genuine Evil? J. Groneman............................................................................202River Travel in the Padang Uplands, Anonymous...................................................................207Ethnographic Notes on Sumba, J. J. van Alphen...................................................................211Advice on Islam, C. Snouck Hurgronje............................................................................214Marriage in Minahasa, Anonymous.................................................................................218Shooting a Tiger, Anonymous.....................................................................................224The Endless War in Aceh, Aceh Documentation Center..............................................................228Beriberi: Disease among the Troops..............................................................................234Protestant Missions in the Indies, Baron van Boetzelaer van Dubbeldam...........................................236The Oceanography of the Archipelago, G. F. Tydeman..............................................................241VI The Last Decades of the Indies...............................................................................245Java's Railways, S. A. Reitsma..................................................................................249The Eruption of Krakatoa, R. A. van Sandick.....................................................................252Colonizing Central Sulawesi, Joost Cot.........................................................................256The Welfare on Java and Madura, Dutch East Indies Welfare Committee.............................................260The Balinese Puputan, Jhr. H. M. Van Weede......................................................................262The Sarekat Islam Congress, 1916, O. S. Tjokroaminoto...........................................................265The Youth Oath,...

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0822344246
• ISBN 13: 9780822344247
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 488
• Herausgeber: Hellwig
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