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From Distant Tales
This is the most comprehensive book devoted to Sumatra in more than half a century. It summarizes earlier studies, and provides a huge amount of new knowledge for the first time in readily accessible form. Sumatra is one of the world’s largest islands, rich in flora and fauna, minerals and timber, and located at the midpoint of the maritime route between China and India. These are ideal conditions for the creation of a fascinating history. Sumatra has played a major role in world trade for 2,000 years, but its culture and archaeology have been surprisingly neglected. This volume sets out to remedy this defect. With chapters on history, archaeology, anthropology, folklore, and religion, the authors focus particular attention on the relations between the coastal peoples who are best known to outsiders, and the hinterlands, where most of the important resources lie. The list of authors includes most of the principal living authorities on Sumatra. Their cumulative experience consists of many years on all parts of the island. The book is copiously illustrated, and includes a comprehensive bibliography for those who wish to pursue further study of the wide range of topics covered.
Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South
This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change. This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the agency of people engaged in these movements. This volume opens by introducing both the historical context and conceptual tools for analyzing the mining-mobility nexus, followed by case study chapters focusing on three regions with significant histories of mineral extraction and where mining currently ...
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A View from the Highlands
This book analyses the rise of the settlement system in the heartland of the Minangkabau region in the highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It explores the regional settlement pattern arising from Adityavarman’s highland interregnum (c. 1347–75), and provides the first attempt to place the archaeological remains and the landscape of Tanah Datar, a fertile plain in the highlands of West Sumatra, in a cultural historic synthesis. The core of this research consisted of excavations at Bukit Gombak and Bukit Kincir. Bukit Gombak was a central place in Adityavarman’s kingdom, and provides evidence of the organization and material development of this political entity. Surveys uncovered other settlements that could be examined in relation to each other and to sites from earlier and later periods, and used to sketch out the settlement history of Tanah Datar from prehistoric times to the colonial period. The book consists of detailed studies of metal, ceramics and glass finds by laboratory-based specialists as well as careful descriptions of stone, clay and other finds.
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Racism Against Indigenous Peoples
"This book is published in connection with the UN "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" held in South Africa, 2001 and it contains articles by experts from throughout the world." - cover.
Le voyage inachevé--
4e de couverture: Le voyage inachevé prolonge le dialogue que Joël Bonnemaison, précocement arraché à la vie en 1997, menait depuis longtemps avec les autres. Avec les insulaires du pacifique qui insufflèrent ses intuitions les plus riches et auxquels il consacra ses plus belles pages. Avec les nombreux chercheurs que les connivences intellectuelles et les liens d'amitié ont réunis autour de cet ouvrage dédié à sa mémoire. L'œuvre maitresse de Joël Bonnemaison sur l'archipel du Vanuatu, récemment rééditée, est un moment décisif dans l'affirmation d'une géographie culturelle à part entière. Le Voyage inachevé poursuit la quête de sens si magistralement engagée. La cen...
Spirits and Ships
This volume seeks to foreground a “borderless” history and geography of South, Southeast, and East Asian littoral zones that would be maritime-focused, and thereby explore the ancient connections and dynamics of interaction that favoured the encounters among the cultures found throughout the region stretching from the Indian Ocean littorals to the Western Pacific, from the early historical period to the present. Transcending the artificial boundaries of macro-regions and nation-states, and trying to bridge the arbitrary divide between (inherently cosmopolitan) “high” cultures (e.g. Sanskritic, Sinitic, or Islamicate) and “local” or “indigenous” cultures, this multidisciplinar...
HARIMAU CAVE AND THE LONG JOURNEY OF OKU CIVILIZATION
The monograph of Harimau Cave and The Long Journey of OKU Civilization is like the fruit of archaeological research in OKU region by the National Archaeological Centre (Pusamas), that took place since 2007. Although earlier in the year 2001-2005 it had been conducted similar studies. in collaboration with foreign institution (Pusamas-lnstitut de Recherche pour le Developpement/IRD), only in 2009 a more intensive study conducted in one of the prehistoric dwelling caves as the primadona to this study, that is Harimau Cave. The cave does not only contain a very abundant wealth of archaeological remains, its walls also keep cave prehistoric art works formerly believed nothing in the region of Su...
