IIASN8-New Publications by KITLV Press

New Publications by KITLV Press

Across Madura Strait: the dynamics of an insular society
Kees van Dijk, Huub de Jonge and Elly Touwen-Bouwsma (eds.)
KITLV Proceedings 2, KITLV Press 1995. ISBN 90 6718 091 2
The 6th International Workshop on Indonesian Studies held in October 1991 was devoted to Madura. Anthropologists, historians, musicologists, Islamologists, rural economists and students of ecology met to address the topic 'Madurese culture: continuity and change'.
The workshop papers selected in this volume testify to the growing and diverse scholarly interest in Madura, which until a few decades ago attracted relatively little academic attention.

Emerging Hierarchies: processes of transformation and early state formation in the Indonesian archipelago: prehistory and the ethnographic present
Ina E. Slamet-Velsink
VKI 166, KITLV Press 1995. ISBN 90 6718 086 6
The emergence of well-organized kingdoms in Southeast Asia in the early centuries of the first millennium AD has been attributed mainly to Indian influences at a time when maritime communications between South Asia and China brought parts of Southeast Asia into direct contact with the old civilizations of Asia. This study concentrates on local developments in several Indonesian islands, where social stratification and the rise of elites created the conditions for the emergence of early states.

Deţawarana (Nţgaraktţgama) by Mpu Prapañca
Stuart Robson (translator)
VKI 169, KITLV Press 1995. ISBN 90 6718 094 7
After the discovery of new manuscripts of this important Old Javanese text a new edition and translation were felt to be appropriate. The edition has not yet been finished but the translation which offers a completely new approach to any of its predecessors has been published here. This makes the book somewhat odd. It gives a translation of a text which is not available. Let us hope the edition will follow in the near future to enable scholars in this field to evaluate the translation.

Java en Madura in the uitvoerende kunsten. Th.G.Th. Pigeaud's Javaanse volksvertoningen en later studies 1817-1995
Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael
Werkdocumenten 7, KITLV Press 1995. ISBN 90 6718 043 2
The first part of this book provides an extensive overview of the way Pigeaud's book Javaanse Volksvertoningen came into being. It discusses the book in its positive and negative aspects and adds an annotated and improved bibliography of the book as well as an additional bibliography of relevant works and articles not mentioned by Pigeaud or which have appeared after the conclusion of his work.