The George Hicks Collection

The George Hicks Collection
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9789004323995
ISBN-13 : 9004323996
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Synopsis The George Hicks Collection by : Eunice Low

The George Hicks Collection at the National Library, Singapore, comprises about 6,900 books and materials donated between 200 and 2015 by Mr George Lyndon Hicks. The Collection focuses on four main subject areas – Southeast Asia, China, Japan and overseas Chinese – spanning the disciplines of history, sociology, economics, political science and anthropology. The body of works in the Collection reveals Mr Hicks’ profound interest in Asia and his scholarly pursuits over the decades. This volume, written and compiled by Eunice Low, presents an annotated bibliography of selected works from the Collection and highlights significant titles. Also included are an overview of the life and career of Mr Hicks, a list of his authored and edited works, as well as essays introducing the chapters.

1979-1990

1979-1990
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 1284
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ISBN-10 : 9783110975062
ISBN-13 : 3110975068
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis 1979-1990 by : Henryk Sawoniak

Early Views of Indonesia

Early Views of Indonesia
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9780824818050
ISBN-13 : 0824818059
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Early Views of Indonesia by : Annabel Teh Gallop

Early Views of Indonesia is a catalog of the most important watercolor and pencil drawings from the British Library's superb collection of more than 1,500 drawings of Indonesia dating from the early nineteenth century, most of which have never been published before.

Images of the Tropics

Images of the Tropics
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9789004253605
ISBN-13 : 9004253602
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Images of the Tropics by : Susie Protschky

Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe. Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Susie Protschky demonstrates how views of the archipelago’s environment were far from simple topographical souvenirs. Rather, this book reveals how images of the tropics visually articulated colonial attempts to legitimize and historicize what were in fact continually changing and contested claims to Dutch territorial sovereignty in the Indies. Further, colonial images of nature were routinely inflected with diverse cultural preoccupations, among them the constitution of gender, class and racial boundaries in Indies society; the tenor of sexual mores in the tropics; and the political role of religion in the archipelago. Landscape art thus indexed colonial views on a range of pressing social and political concerns.

Anthropological Resources

Anthropological Resources
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 553
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ISBN-10 : 9781134818860
ISBN-13 : 1134818866
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Anthropological Resources by : Lee S. Dutton

This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archives), Elizabeth Edwards and Veronica Lawrence (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), Francisco Demetrio, S.J. (Museum and Archives, Xavier University, Philippines) and many others. The guide covers selected documentation in social and cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and folklore. Some major area studies collections (such as the Asia Collections, Cornell University Libraries, and the Melanesian Archive at the University of California, San Diego) are also represented. Web URLs have been cited when available and personal, and ethnic name indexes are provided.

The Boxer Codex

The Boxer Codex
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 747
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ISBN-10 : 9789004301542
ISBN-13 : 9004301542
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Boxer Codex by : George Bryan Souza

In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It is a special source that provides evidence for understanding early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.

Mapping the Acehnese Past

Mapping the Acehnese Past
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9789004253599
ISBN-13 : 9004253599
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Mapping the Acehnese Past by : R. Michael Feener

Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters—the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on a more positive and neglected claim Aceh has on our attention, as the Southeast Asian maritime state that most successfully and creatively maintained its independent place in the world until 1874. Like Burma, Siam and Vietnam, all better protected by geography, Aceh has its own story to tell of a unique culture struggling for survival through the European colonial era. Unfortunately the sources for this story are scattered, since Aceh’s own records have not well survived the ravages of climate, civil war and eventual foreign conquest. To recover its cosmopolitan history an unparalleled range of sources and skills had to be brought together. Aceh’s central role in the creation of Malay literature out of Arabic, Persian, Indian and Indonesian elements had to be explored with reference to texts surviving in a dozen world libraries (Teuku Iskandar, Amirul Hadi). The rich archeological record, neglected through the long years of conflict, had again to be brought into play (Daniel Perret), and the extensive relations of the Aceh sultanate with the Ottoman Empire (Ismail Göksoy and Ismail Kadı, Andrew Peacock & Annabel Gallop), Portugal (Jorge Alves), England (Annabel Gallop), and the Netherlands (Sher Banu and Jean Taylor) had to be explored, chiefly in European archives by experts in these respective fields. The result of this combined work in this volume is the most comprehensive picture so far of sources for the history of Aceh.

The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880. Volume III

The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880. Volume III
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9789004531062
ISBN-13 : 9004531068
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880. Volume III by :

Originally published as catalogue 100 of Antiquariaat FORUM in 10 issues between 1994-2002. With an extra issue with extensive indices. The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789061941392).