Honouring the spirit of Ian Proudfoot’s scholarship, Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World comprises original and provocative essays that reveal how analyses of offbeat texts can produce fascinating insights into the past. In one absorbing volume, a multi-disciplinary cohort of international academics presents intriguing, amusing and thought-provoking perspectives on calendars, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, rituals, theatre, art, advertising, Islamic manuscripts, gardens and erotic literature. Linked by themes of transformations in time, texts and technologies, the essays apply the approaches of history, anthropology, art history, archaeology, linguistics, philology, literary criticism, and textual analysis to a marvellous array of cultural expressions from the Malay World, a huge geographical area spanning Peninsular and Insular Southeast Asia, with excursions into West, South, and East Asia as well as the “West”. In this volume, mousedeers and beached whales, giant lizards, gaseous windbags and marginal Islamic scholars, Christian priests and Japanese aristocrats all roam around freely—a forceful demonstration of the futility of essentialising the cultural, literary and historical riches of the Malay World.
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Edited by JAN VAN DER PUTTEN and MARY KILCLINE CODY
NUS Press (First printing, 2009)
428 pages including Bibliography and Index
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Significant Time, Myths and Power in the Javanese Calendar
– Ann Kumar
2. How Surakarta was Founded on the Wrong Day
– M. C. Ricklefs
3. Shining Stones: The King and the Ascetic in Indonesia
– John N. Miksic
4. An Excursion to Java’s Get-Rich-Quick Tree
– George Quinn
5. Chasing the Dragon: An Early Expedition to Komodo Island
– Timothy P. Barnard
6. Lord Hunting Tiger and Malay Learning in Japan Before the War
– Mikihiro Moriyama
7. Martyr to Science or Gaseous Windbag of Colossal Ignorance?
– Amin Sweeney
8. A Paler Shade of White
– Mary Kilcline Cody
9. The Perils of Propaganda
– Paul H. Kratoska
10. Wanted
– Jan van der Putten
11. In Search of Fatimah
– Wendy Mukherjee
12. When is a Jawi Jawi? A Short Note on Pieter Soury’s “Maldin” and his Minang Student “Sayf al-Riyjal”
– Michael Laffan
13. Reflections on the Mysticism of Shams al-Din al-Samatra’i (1550?-1630)
– A. H. Johns
14. A Life Unrecognised: Muhammad Yusuf Ahmad and Majalah Guru
– Mark Emmanuel
15. Fr Pécot and the Earliest Catholic Imprints in Malay
– Anthony Reid
16. Some Light on Ahmad al-Fatani’s Nur al-mubin (“The Clear Light’)
– Edwin Wieringa
17. Ritual Recitation of Abdul Qadir’s Karamatamat: A Social History
– Julian Millie
18. Singing the Text: On-Air Textual Interpretation in Bali
– Helen Creese
19. Faust does Nusantara
– Holger Warnk
20. Finding Love in Hikayat Raja Kulawandu
– Muhammad Haji Salleh
21. The Thread of Eroticism in Faridah Hanom, An Early Malay Novel by Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi
– Christine Campbell
22. Pedal Power in Southeast Asia
– Kees van Dijk
23. The Lament of an Old Man: Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914) of Batavia on Cars
– Nico J. G. Kaptein
24. Some Thoughts on Islamic Manuscripts from the Southern Philippines and the Jawi Tradition
– E. Ulrich Kratz
25. To Rescue a Beached Whale: The Translation of Matthes’ Bugis Dictionary
– Campbell Macknight
26. Was the Mousedeer Peranakan? In Search of Chinese Islamic Influences on Malay Manuscript Art
– Annabel Teh Gallop
27. Gardens of Knowledge: From Bustan to Taman
– Virginia Hooker
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
| Weight | 0.615 kg |
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| Dimensions | 22.9 × 15.3 × 1 cm |
| Author(s) | Amin Sweeney, Ann Kumar, Annabel Teh Gallop, Anthony Hearle Johns, Anthony Reid, Campbell Macknight, Christine Campbell, E Ulrich Kratz, Edwin Paul Wieringa, George Quinn, Helen Creese, Holger Warnk, Jan van der Putten, John Norman Miksic, Julian Millie, Kees van Dijk, Mark Emmanuel, Mary Kilcline Cody, Merle Calvin Ricklefs, Michael Francis Laffan, Michael Laffan, Mikihiro Moriyama, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Nico J. G. Kaptein, Paul H. Kratoska, Timothy P. Barnard, Virginia Matheson Hooker, Wendy Mukherjee |
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