Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the humanities and social sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Linguistics is a discipline with ever expanding boundaries and interests. Despite the narrow definition of linguistics which dominates academia, sub-fields continue to flourish and ways of doing linguistics continue to expand. As ways to do linguistics increase, and as approaches to linguistics accumulate over time, it becomes increasingly necessary for students of linguistics to have ways of u…
Dalam sejarah politik, sangat sering terjadi agama dijadikan instrumen oleh para penguasa yang zalim untuk menindas rakyat ataupun melanggengkan kekuasaannya. Semasa orde baru fenomena serupa juga muncul. Anehnya lagi, banyak mereka yang disebut ulama tanpa sadar dan tanpa penolakan telah dijadikan tameng atau bemper oleh rejim Suharto untuk menjinakkan umat islam agar tetap tenang sekalipun be…
Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates…
This major inter-disciplinary collection, edited by two of the best respected figures in the field, provides a superb general introduction to this subject. Chapters include discussions of fieldwork methodology, analyzing discourse, the advantages and pitfalls of team approaches, the uses of computers, and the applications of qualitative data analysis for social policy. Shrewd and insightful, th…
Based on surveys made by members of the staff of Indiana University, and supported by the National Research Council's Committee for Research on Problems of Sex by means of funds contributed by the Medical Division of the Rockefeller Foundation.' Includes bibliography.
The book provides a critical synthesis of studies in sociolinguistic covariation, accessible to readers with basic linguistic knowledge, and serves as both an introductory resource and a standard reference in the field. It balances readability with theoretical and methodological depth, discussing important sociolinguistic concepts and issues such as language variation and categoricity through p…
In this book an international team of contributors examines critically the relationship between television and women′s culture. Although they recognize that television frequently distorts and oppresses women′s experience, the authors avoid a simplistic manipulative view of the media. Instead they show how and why such different genres as game shows, police fiction and soap opera offer women…
Century 21, a time machine in literary form, ignores the unity of time, space, and character. This tragicomical idyll of the future past mixes ancient and modern genres: Platonic dialogue and nineteenth-century romance, reportage and science fiction. At the book's core are two sisters, Ann Kar, a writer and survivor, and Carol, a suicidal artist. Considering herself a lunatic, Carol dreams abou…
In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Some were married and others returned to marry, but they routinely left t…
Interpretation of literary works of Noto Soeroto, a poet of Javanese royal descent, and political relationships between Indonesia and Netherlands around 1920s.
A study of 'the ideological foundations' of the monarchical governments of Southeast Asia, specifically in Hindu-Buddhist cultures, this book examines political thought on the nature of rule.
Hermeneutika adalah studi tentang prinsip-prinsip metodologis interpretasi dalam menafairkan sebuah realitas . Buku ini lebih cukup komprehensif dari tokoh² pemikir hermeneutik
Sejarawan Sartono Kartodirdjo hari Kamis (15/2/2007) genap berusia 86 tahun. Kondisi kesehatannya kian menurun. Sartono tidak saja memberi contoh di wilayah publik sebagai Bapak Sejarah Indonesia, tetapi juga memberi teladan dan inspirasi sosok pribadinya. Ia memilih hidup asketis. Mengapa memilih hidup asketis? Nilai-nilai apa yang mendasarinya? Bagaimana pe…
The artist formerly (and usually) known as Caravaggio has been a perennial and fascinating enigma for centuries. Born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571, he took the name Caravaggio from the small town outside Milan in which he lived before moving to Rome in 1592, where he rapidly established himself as one of the most acclaimed but also controversial painters of his time. In Peter Robb's groundbreaki…
Tackles a broad range of phenomena characterizing the contemporary national formation of the Philippines, including the prostitution economy, the mass migration overseas of domestic workers, urban restructuring, and the popular revolt deposing the Marcos dictatorship, as well as representational works of art, poetry, historical narrative, and film, which try to intervene in these historical con…
Berisi serangkaian wawancara mendalam dengan tokoh-tokoh bersejarah yang memainkan peran krusial dalam dinamika politik dan diplomasi global. Dari Henry Kissinger, Jenderal Giap, Norodom Sihanuk, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Hussein dari Yordania, Indira Gandhi, Ali Bhutto, dan Willy Brandt. Buku ini menyoroti pandangan dan pengalaman langsung mereka dalam konteks geopolitik yang kompleks, member…
Memories of a Nonya was first published in 1981. This reissue of the book is based on the 1982 edition. The late Queeny Chang was a trailblazer. She spoke English, Malay, Dutch as well as several dialects. She led an extraordinary life and in this book, she presents a vision of a way of life that has long since vanished. Her authentic biography opens the windows of time and allows the images of…
Peluncuran Buku dan Pameran Batik Lasem Sebagai wujud tanggung jawab dalam menyebarkan pengetahuan tentang batik, Institut Pluralisme Indonesia (IPI), Selasa (30/3), meluncurkan dua buah buku berjudul Eksplorasi Sejarah Batik Lasem dan Potret Kehidupan Pembatik di Lasem Rembang. IPI merupakan sebuah lembaga nirlaba yang didirikan pada 2000 yang bertujuan mengembangkan wacana pluralis…
Biography of Roehana Koeddoes, a female educator and journalist from West Sumatra, who struggled for women's education and the founder of the first women's newspaper in West Sumatra during Dutch colonial period.
Timur Indonesia di mata Fatris lebih dari sekedar alam yang perawan, masyarakat tradisional, keindahan tersembunyi, dan pujian-pujian semacam itu. Fatris dalam catatannya, berupaya masuk ke dalam, terlibat langaung dengan masyarakat, tinggal bersama mereka, mendengarkan narasi mereka. Terhadap pariwisata Fatris tak selalu optimis, selalu ada ironi di sana.
Sekilas terkesan bahwa kancah musik Makassar baru tumbuh beberapa tahun menjelang Reformasi bergulir. Tetapi dari arsip, narasi, cerita para narasumber serta pelaku-langsung memancarkan fakta bahwa jagat musik populer kota ini mulai membentangkan catatan geliatnya sejak modernisme menyulap Makassar seratus tahun silam! Babakan sejarah musik Makassar itu dimulai ketika Black and White Jazz Band…
Buku yang ditulis oleh Thomas Stamford Raffles menceritakan tentang keindahan tanah Jawa. Buku ini mengisahkan tentang keadaan penduduk, adat istiadat, keadaan geografi, sistem perdagangan, bahasa, dan agama di Pulau Jawa. Di dalam buku ini juga, Raffles menuliskan tentang masa perbudakan yang berusaha untuk dituntaskan oleh bangsa Inggris. Selain itu, karakter orang-orang Jawa dari sudut panda…
During a ceremony held in 1996 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of formal Philippine independence, the U.S. flag was being lowered while the Philippine flag was being raised, and the two became entangled. In The Star-Entangled Banner, Sharon Delmendo demonstrates that this incident is indicative of the longstanding problematic relationship between the two countries. When faced with a nat…
"Ho Ying Chan provides an expert analysis of Malaysia–Indonesia relations. He demystifies the concept of a 'special relationship', rescuing it from woolly, sentimental rhetoric that often emanates from political figures and popular commentators. His well-informed study shows how a state’s will to survive in the amoral world of international relations drives its conduct even in circumstances…
Deskripsi Pasar merupakan institusi sentral dalam masyarakat modern. Tidak bisa dibayangkan bagaimana kehidupan masyarakat modern tanpa keberadaan pasar di tengahnya. Oleh karena itu, peran pasar dipahami sangat strategis bagi dan dalam masyarakat. Pasar, di samping negara dan civil society, merupakan salah satu aktor utama yang menggerakkan, mengatur, dan mengubah kehidupan (kelompok) manusia…
The Other Malaysia is a compilation of some of the articles by Farish A. Noor that were published in the online daily Malaysiakini.com. His writings aimed to unearth the forgotten and marginalised aspects of Malaysian history, reminding us of the manifold possibilities and contingencies that existed in the past and remain with us still. The articles were an attempt at a sustained critique of Ma…
Sebagai minoritas yang dipandang selalu berorientasi pada tanah Arab, tempat asalnya, orang Indonesia keturunan Arab dengan berjalannya waktu telah terintegrasi dengan baik ke dalam masyarakat Indonesia. Belakangan, peran mereka di beberapa bidang kehidupan tampak semakin menguat dan terlihat. Meskipun demikian, kajian atau literatur tentang orang Indonesia keturunan Arab ini masih terbatas. De…
Kemunculan pengemis di Surabaya diakibatkan perubahan jumlah penduduk Kota Surabaya sejak ditetapkan sebagai Gementee pada tahun 1906. Urbanisasi yang pesat menyebabkan banyak penduduk kota yang tidak mendapat kesempatan kerja. pemiskinan masyarakat bumiputra dengan adanya depresi ekonomi menyebabkan banyaknya pengangguran yang berusaha bertahan hidup di Kota Surabaya.
Gelombang kerusuhan sosial melanda Kepulauan Maluku, antara tahun 1999-2002, terutama di kota pulau Ambon. Kumpulan kasus yang termuat dalam buku ini menyediakan suatu uraian konteks sejarah politik, ekonomi, dan budaya lokal Maluku yang berguna untuk memahami berbagai kemungkinan akar-akar konflik yang selama ini nampak samar-samar, kabur atau ‘sengaja disamarkan dan dikaburkan’. Dengan me…
Buku ini yang mengandungi sejumlah 5653 rangkap pantun dalam kumpulan ini menjadi saksi kepada ketulenan dan keaslian lidah orang Melayu menuturkan warisan puisi Melayu bagi mencerminkan sikap orang Melayu yang amat mementingkan nilai budi, menjunjung tinggi hubungan kekeluargaan, hormat-menghormati sesama insan dan hidup penuh muafakat dalam setiap aspek kehidupan. Buku ini amat bermanfaat kep…
Kehadiran buku puisi karya Joko Pinurbo berjudul Telepon Genggam ini akan merefleksikan kehadiran telepon genggam di tengah-tengah kemajuan hidup. Saat ini, telepon genggam sangat lekat dengan kehidupan dan problematika manusia. Di mana orang-orang seperti tidak dapat lepas dari telepon genggam, kalau menurut bahasanya Jokpin (panggilan Joko Pinurbo), telepon genggam itulah yang lebih erat meng…
Buku ini merupakan kumpulan puisi wianta dengan ciri-ciri puisinya tidak membuat judul secara khusus tetapi dengan menuliskan tempat, suasana dan penanggalan di setiap akhir puisi lengkap dengan tanda tangan seperti dalam lukisan, sketsa dan drawing.
Mayur Vayeda, Tushar Vayeda Two young artists from the indigenous Warli community in western India travel from the familiarity of home to the faraway land of Japan. Their fabulously rendered journey resonates with another journey, of discovering how water connects all life – from the humans on the surface to the creatures at the very depths of the ocean. The Deep is a reflection on what is k…
A seed is a miracle. It is neither alive nor dead, yet holds within itself the potential for life. When it meets the right conditions, it starts to unfurl, with a promise of plenty and the hope of regeneration. The astonishing variety of traits that a seed holds can be looked at in terms of botany, but also through the lens of art, culture and history. But it is only by connecting these mode…
David Chidester, one of the world's foremost scholars of religion, traces Christianity's growth and development from the time of Jesus to the dawn of the third millennium, revealing its rich diversity through the deeds and beliefs of heretics and saints, witches and healers, preachers and inquisitors. Chidester explores the emergence of the major streams of Christian thought and practice, disti…