Publications
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Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
(2024)
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close ...
Commentaar op de Salasilah van Koetai
(1956)
Indonesia
Life at Maripaston
(1973)
The Matawai Maroon Johannes King (ca. 1830-1898) taught himself to read and write at an advanced age. He wanted to bridge the gap between the generations by publishing his Book of Horrors (Skrekiboekoe) and the present ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Indonesia
The power of prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the end of an old order in Java, 1785-1855
(2008)
National hero, Javanese mystic, pious Muslim and leader of the ‘holy war’ against the Dutch between 1825 and 1830, the Yogyakarta prince, Dipanagara (1785-1855, otherwise known as Diponegoro), is pre-eminent in the pantheon ...
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation
(2009)
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the ...
De kraton van Majapahit
(1948)
Indonesia
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Met de aanwezigheid van Surinamers en (in kleinere aantallen) Antillianen in ons land is men hier sinds de jaren zestig vertrouwd geraakt. Over dit onderwerp is ook veel geschreven. Minder bekend is de geschiedenis van de ...
Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men’s Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE
(2015)
The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to ...
Man, Meaning and History
(1980)
Indonesia
Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
(2014)
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
De val van Sora
(1939)
Indonesia
An Outline of the Recent History of Indonesian Criminal Law
(1961)
Indonesia
Islam and the making of the nation: Kartosuwiryo and political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia
(2012)
For decades, scholars of Indonesia have rejected the religious claims of the Darul Islam movement, interpreting the antagonism between the Islamic state and Soekarno’s republic as a fight for power, self-assertion, or land ...
Adat Atjèh
(1958)
Indonesia
Loetoeng Kasaroeng
(1949)
Indonesia
Oost-Soemba
(1940)
Indonesia
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Time Distortions in Mind
(2015)
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the ...