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Buchmessen-Schwerpunkt 2005: KOREA

Unsere koreanischen Autoren Hwang Chi-Woo, Kim Chi-Ha sowie Park Ynhui werden auf der Buchmesse in Frankfurt (19.-23.10.05) anwesend sein.

"MEINE LIEBE, MEIN VATERLAND."
In ihrem Buch schildert die Ehefrau des koreanischen Friedensnobelpreisträgers Kim Dae-Jung in anschaulicher und eindringlicher Weise, wie sie und ihr Mann nie die Hoffnung aufgaben, nie ihren Glauben verloren, wie sie überlebten und wie sie nicht nur letztlich über Verfolgung und Diktatur triumphierten, sondern auch weltweite Anerkennung fanden.

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Traude Gavin
Iban Ritual Textiles
KITLV Press: Leiden 2004.
Peperback, xi, 356 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-202-8

Iban ritual textiles draws on years of fieldwork and the author’s documentation of hundreds of Iban cloths. Topics include the ritual functions of Iban ikat-patterned fabrics; the technical aspects of producing such cloths, as well as the dynamics of the complex of weaving (the power and efficacy of cloth patterns, dreams and charms) that can be subject to human interpretation and regulation. The main focus however is on the cloth patterns themselves and on the names assigned to them. Here the author challenges some long held misconceptions, in particular the notion of designs as a ‘primitive form of language’. From this novel perspective, the role of weavers as technicians is set off against the power of patterns as an index for a weaver’s relative rank. The study moves on to examine the association of female prestige and weaving with the parallel structure of male status and headhunting. Findings further are discussed in the context of both former and more recent intellectual frameworks.
Iban ritual textiles is the firth in-depth study of Iban ikat-patterned cloth based on extensive field research and should be of interest to anthropologists, art historians and scholars with an interest in the textile traditions of Southeast Asia.
Dr. Traude Gavin is a freelance researcher and lecturer and lives in Scotland.
co-published with Singapore University Press (NUS)

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McWilliam, Andrew
Paths of origin, gates of life - A study of place and precedence in southwest Timor.
KITLV Press: Leiden 2002.
Peperback, xiv, 332 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-198-6

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this work explores the historical and cultural dimensions of an indigenous Timorese domain in the southern central highlands of West Timor. Informing the study of Timorese social and cultural practice is an interpretative framework based on the concept of precedence and the rich repertoire of indigenous metaphor and binary categories by which Timorese articulate and classify social relations. Ideas of place and precedence are central to an understanding of local status differences within and between hamlet settlements. They also inform the historical patterns of present-day settlements and help explain aspects of the broader historical expansion and migration of meto populations across much of West Timor. or the little known region of Timor, this volume will be of interest to regional specialists, development planners and students of anthropology, seeking a more detailed understanding of indigenous history and sociality in this corner of the Lesser Sunda Islands of eastern Indonesia.
Andrew McWilliam, is a research fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He has undertaken extensive research on Timor since 1983 both as an anthropologist and as an advisor on rural development projects. His present work focuses on resource tenure and policy challenges in both East and West Timor.

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Marcel Vellinga
Constituting unity and difference - Vernacular architecture in a Minangkabau village.
KITLV Press: Leiden 2004.
Peperback, xiv, 338 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-230-3

The vernacular architecture of the Minangkabau in Sumatra constitutes one of the most popular and well-known building traditions in contemporary Indonesia. Yet, despite its fame, Minangkabau architecture has received remarkably little scholarly attention. What is known about the building tradition does not go beyond the romanticized popular image (of high-rising roof spires, floor elevations, and colourful woodcarvings) promoted by the government, the tourist industry, and the media. This image leaves too many questions about the meaning of Minangkabau architecture unanswered. Constituting Unity and difference refines, supplements, and revises the popular image. Focusing on the construction, design, and spatial use of vernacular houses in one region of West Sumatra, and taking into account historical developments and geographical variation, the author explores how vernacular Minangkabau houses are instrumental in the constitution, perpetuation, and manipulation of socio-political relationships and identities. He concludes that the current popular image of Minangkabau architecture is seriously in need of revision.
Anthropologists, architects, and those interested in Indonesian cultural history or vernacular architecture studies will value this in-depth analysis of one of the country’s most striking and popular building traditions.
Marcel Vellinga obtained his PhD in anthropology at Leiden University in 2000. At present he is a research associate at the Centre for Vernacular Architecture Studies, Oxford Brookes University, England.

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Nas, Peter, Gerard Persoon and Rivke Jaffe (eds)
Framing Indonesian realities - essays in symbolic anthropology in honour of Reimar Schefold
KITLV Press: Leiden 2004.
Peperback, 420 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-218-4

Ritual language, wild and domestic animals, and objects of material culture like houses, palaces, and works of art, are often loaded with symbolic meaning. ‘Reading the landscape’, or giving meaning to the natural environment, is a cultural act as well, and one must discover what mountains, coastlines, and islands mean to different groups of people. In this book, written on the occasion of Professor Reimar Schefold’s retirement from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, colleagues and former students from the Netherlands and abroad demonstrate the variety and wealth of the field of symbolic anthropology.
The regional focus of the book is Indonesia. The studies presented range from small island communities in western, northern, and eastern Indonesia to urban settlements in Java and Sumatra. All the contributions are in one way or another related to Reimar Schefold’s work over the past thirty-five years, work that includes extensive studies on material culture, rituals, and the use of symbols in the expression of ethnicity among the various cultural groups of Indonesia.
Contents Peter J. M. Nas and Gerard A. Persoon Introduction Signs and symbols
James J. Fox Admonitions of the ancestors Giving voice to the deceased in Rotinese mortuary rituals
E. Douglas Lewis Ritual, metaphor, and the problem of direct exchange in a Tana Wai Brama child transfer
Michael P. Vischer Substitution, expiation and the idiom of blood in Ko’a sacrificing Comparative issues in Austronesian ethnography
Jet Bakels Friend or foe The perception of the tiger as a wild animal
Hetty Nooy-Palm The buffalo in ritual, myth and daily life of the Sa’dan Toraja
Raymond Corbey Iconoclasm and conversion Ritual riddance on the Christian frontier
Helena Spanjaard Javanese tradition A prettified cage
Pieter ter Keurs The return of style analysis A new exploration of an old subject
Marcel Vellinga The attraction of the house Architecture, status and ethnicity in West Sumatra
Robert Wessing The kraton-city and the realm Sources and movement of power in Java
Reynt J. Sluis A reassessment of Lynch’s conception of meaning
Peter J.M. Nas and Pratiwo The streets of Jakarta Fear, trust and amnesia in urban development
Peter Boomgaard The high sanctuary Local perceptions of mountains in Indonesia, 1750-2000
Gerard A. Persoon The fascination with Siberut Visual image of an island people
Freek Colombijn When there is nothing to imagine Nationalism in Riau
Han F. Vermeulen Reimar Schefold and the study of Indonesian cultures Bibliography of Reimar Schefold

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Louis Fontijn Edited and translated by Gregory Forth
Guardians of the land in Kelimado - Louis Fontijne’s study of a colonial district in eastern Indonesia
KITLV Press: Leiden 2004.
Peperback, xiii, 266 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-223-0

In 1940, a Dutch colonial officer named Louis Fontijne (1902-1968) was commissioned to conduct an investigation of indigenous land tenure and leadership in the Residency of Timor and Dependencies. Dealing specifically with Kelimado, a region included in the Nage district of central Flores, its main product was a remarkable study of society and culture and the effects of over three decades of Dutch administration and Christian proselytizing. In regard to ethnographic detail and analytical insight, the work, entitled ‘Grondvoogden in Kelimado’, resembles more an academic thesis than a government report; yet another interest is Fontijne’s forthright critique of colonial policy and recommendations for administrative reform.
Incorporating an edited translation of the only comprehensive description of the Nage society produced during the colonial period, as well as an evaluation by a modern ethnographer, this book will be of interest to anthropologists, historians and other scholars concerned with Indonesia and the Netherlands Indies.
Gregory Forth is at present Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. His previous books include Rindi (1981), Beneath the volcano (1998), Dualism and hierarchy, (2001), and Nage birds (2004).

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Thomas Reuter
The house of our ancestors - Precedence and dualism in Highland Balinese society
KITLV Press: Leiden 2003.
Peperback.
ISBN 90-6718-185-4

The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Balinese or Bali Aga, an ethnic group with a distinct history and culture who are thought to be the indigenous people of Bali, Indonesia. In popular ideas of Balinese identity, the highland people feature as the conceptual counterpart to the royal houses established in the southern lowlands of the island. Hidden in shadow of this courtly culture, the world of the highland Balinese has been largely ignored even though Bali counts among the most researched localities in the world. This book explores their social organization and status economy from the perspective of an innovative theory of ‘precedence’. Regional domains, villages and origin houses among the Bali Aga are all conceived and ranked in reference to the basic ideas of a sacred origin in the past, and of an order of precedence connecting the past with the present. The analysis of precedence ranking, evident at all levels of Bali Aga social organization, leads to the development of a new theory of status for Austronesian societies that departs radically from the notion of hierarchy as proposed by Louis Dumont in his classic study of the Indian caste system.
Thomas Reuter obtained his PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, in 1995. At present he is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

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J. Rodenburg
In the shadow of migration - rural women and their households in North Tapanuli, Indonesia.
KITLV Press: Leiden 1997.
Peperback, 248 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-108-0

This study explores the relationship between outmigration and gender roles in two villages in North Tapanuli, on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. In a symbolic sense, land and women have always represented security to Toba Batak men as they travelled in search of a livelihood. The main purpose of this study is to throw light on the options open to the women staying behind and the adjustments they make, as well as their reasons for making them. The approach followed is an anthropological one. It combines an analysis of actor-oriented perceptions and strategies with an insight into the structural forces that formed the context of migration as it developed from the late nineteenth century through the colonial period until today. Janet Rodenburg is an anthropologist specializing in gender studies in Southeast Asia.

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Stuart Robson
The Kraton - Selected essays on Javanese courts
KITLV Press: Leiden 2003.
Hardcover, xxvi, 390 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-131-5

This volume contains English translations of a number of Dutch-language articles selected for their relevance to the institution of the Kraton, the Javanese palace complex, as it was towards the end of the colonial period, in the 1930s. The majority of the articles, originally published in the period from 1921 to 1941, relate especially to the Sultanate of Yogyakarta, rather than the Kraton of Surakarta. The reason for this is probably that they are taken mostly from the journal Djåwå, published by the Java Instituut (Java Institute), which was located in Yogyakarta.
The aim of republishing these articles in translation is to make them accessible to a wider audience of scholars interested in Indonesia, in the belief that they contain information of lasting value for the study of the history, in particular the social and cultural history, of Java.
Stuart Robson is a retired Professor of Indonesian from Monash University, Melbourne.

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J. van Baal
Dema - Description and Anaysis of Marind-Anim Culture (South New Guinea)
Martinus Nijhoff: Den Haag 1966.
Hardcover, xxviii, 988 Seiten.

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J. van Baal
Jan Verschuren's Description of Yei-Nan Culture.
Martinus Nijhoff: Den Haag 1982.
Paperback, vi, 109 Seiten.

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Sita van Bemmelen, Madelon Djajadiningrat-Nieuwenhuis, Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Elly Touwen-Bouwsma (eds.)
Women and Mediation in Indonesia.
KITLV Press: Leiden 1992.
Paperback, viii, 307 Seiten.
ISBN 90-6718-045-9

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