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 ...
Roman Gods
(2009)
Drawing exclusively on the evidence from urban Rome up to the age of Constantine, the book analyzes the pagan, Jewish, and Christian concepts of "god" along the lines of space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ...
Directions for Travellers on the Mystic Path
(1977)
Indonesia
Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
(2016)
This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access. This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and ...
On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma
(1967)
Indonesia
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Nineteenth-Century Borneo
(1955)
Indonesia
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
At the Shores of the Sky
(2020)
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During ...
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2
(2021)
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the ...
Jesuits in Spanish America before the Suppression
(2021)
From the late sixteenth century until their expulsion in 1767, members of the Society of Jesus played an important role in the urban life of Spanish America and as administrators of frontier missions. This study examines ...
“The Turk" in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
(2021)
In "The Turk" in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs' views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in ...
The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. – A.D. 476)
(2007)
This sixth volume of the network Impact of Empire offers a comprehensive reading on the economic, political, religious and cultural impact of Roman military forces on the regions that were dominated by the Roman Empire.
Vol. 22 (2016), Asian Yearbook of International Law
(2019)
Launched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major internationally-refereed yearbook dedicated to international legal issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. It is published under the auspices ...
De garoeda en de ooievaar
(2010)
Deze nieuwe beschrijving van het wordingsproces van de Indonesische staat gaat ervan uit, dat die staat zijn ontstaan niet alleen dankt aan de nationale vrijheidsbeweging maar ook aan de Nederlandse heerschappij waar die ...
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
(2019)
In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515-Vienna 1588). ...
The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800
(2019)
The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800 offers innovative studies on the development of the law of nations after the Peace of Westphalia. This period was decisive for the origin and constitution of the discipline which ...