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Herding the Wind
“What is the meaning of a vast, deep sea if love wishes to cross it and dive into it, my friend?” sang Anila. The monkeys all stopped their work to dance and answer Anila’s riddle. “The sea will become a lake and love will become a pair of golden puppets on the water’s surface. The depth of the ocean will vanish, the vastness of the sea will be crossed and the pair of golden puppets will bathe in the lake.” “What is the meaning of two very distant lands if love wishes to unite them, my friend?” asked Cucak Rawun. “The vast land will become but a handful of earth traversed by the wings of love. Who else, other than love, can fly like a bolt of lightning? Not just land, but e...
Shadows of Empire
Shadows of Empire explores Javanese shadow theater as a staging area for negotiations between colonial power and indigenous traditions. Charting the shifting boundaries between myth and history in Javanese Mahabharata and Ramayana tales, Laurie J. Sears reveals what happens when these stories move from village performances and palace manuscripts into colonial texts and nationalist journals and, most recently, comic books and novels. Historical, anthropological, and literary in its method and insight, this work offers a dramatic reassessment of both Javanese literary/theatrical production and Dutch scholarship on Southeast Asia. Though Javanese shadow theater (wayang) has existed for hundreds...
The Ramayana Revisited
14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic.
A History of Classical Malay Literature
This is a detailed, narrative–based history of Classical Malay Literature. It covers a wide range of Malay texts, including folk literature; the influence of the Indian epics and shadow theatre; Panji tales; the transition from Hindu to Muslim literary models; Muslim literature; framed tales; theological literature; historical literature; legal codes; and the dominant forms of poetry, the pantun and syair. The author describes the background to each of these particular literary periods. He engages in depth with specific texts, their various manuscripts, and their contents. In so doing, he draws attention to the historical complexity of tradisional Malay society, its worldviews, and its place within the wider framework of human experience. Dr. Liaw’s History of Classical Malay Literature will be of benefit to beginning students of Malay Literature and to established scholars alike. It can also be read with benefit by those with a wider interest in Comparative Literature and in Southeast Asian culture in general.
Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java
This book is a wide-ranging study of the varieties of gamelan music in contemporary Java seen from a regional perspective. While the focus of most studies of Javanese music has been limited to the court-derived music of Surakarta and Yogyakarta, Sutton goes beyond them to consider also gamelan music of Banyumas, Semarang and east Java as separate regional traditions with distinctive repertoires, styles and techniques of performance and conceptions about music. Sutton's description of these traditions, illustrated with numerous musical examples in Javanese cipher notation, is based on extensive field experience in these areas and is informed by the criteria that Javanese musicians judge to be most important in distinguishing them.
ICGCS 2021
Responding to evolving challenges toward achieving gender equality and social inclusion. 30-31 August 2021, Indonesia. This event, organized by Pusat Studi Gender, Anak, dan Keluarga (PPGAK) ‘The Center of Gender, Children, and Family Studies’ Universitas Andalas aims to promote new insights and discussion about the current global perspectives, considering the differences in academic and subject fields’ approaches across time, countries, and economic sectors, with its implications and to improve and share the scientific knowledge on gender research. Is meant to open our horizon that the issue of gender and social inclusion may be viewed from various disciplines and perspectives. This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 1st International Conference in Gender, Culture and Society, held online from Padang, Indonesia, August 30-31, 2021. The 85 revised full papers were carefully selected from 124 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in gender, culture and society. The papers present a wide range of insights and discussion about the current global perspectives on gender research.
Urnabhih: A Mauryan Tale of Espionage, Adventure and Seduction
Misrakesi comes to the newly-formed Mauryan court with a mission-to avenge the death of her sister. However, an encounter with Chanakya, the man she had planned to kill, sets her on an unexpected path...She lands the highly-coveted job of a spy, masquerading as a dancing girl. In a kingdom fraught with intrigue, Misrakesi must always remain one step ahead. With the help of her handsome but arrogant chief Pushyamitra, she must concoct the perfect blend of sweetness and seduction to vanquish the enemies of the state. But when she is sent to subtly conquer a powerful neighboring kingdom, she might be in for more than what she bargained for. Will she succeed in her mission? Or more importantly, will she even survive to tell the tale? Meticulously researched, this historical page-turner packs in romance, political intrigue, and mystery to make for a racy read.
Rahvayana 2
Sinta berubah. Namanya jadi Janaki. Janaki pun berubah. Namanya jadi Waidehi. Tapi, Rahwana tetap mencintainya. Rahwana tetapmenjunjungnya, menyembahnya. Terhadap titisan Dewi Widowati itu ia tak menyembah nama. Rahwana menyembah Zat melalui caranya sendiri. Persembahannya secara agama cinta .... Hmmm .... Uhmmm ... Sebuah nama yang ada bukan karena dinamai. Sebuah nama yang ada juga bukan karena menamai dirinya sendiri. Adakah itu? Ada. Rahwana yakin itu ada. Dan ia sangat mencintainya. [Mizan, Bentang, Sujiwo Tejo, Wayang, Jawa, Rahwana, Shinta, Cinta, Sastra] Spesial Bentang Sujiwo Tejo
Dharmaning Satriya
DISADARI atau tidak, ternyata para pujangga Jawa atau para leluhur orang Jawa dulu banyak mewariskan nilai-nilai falsafah mengenai kepribadian dan kepemimpinan kepada anak cucunya. Nilai-nilai falsafah kepribadian dan kepemimpinan tersebut merupakan ajaran Kejawen (budaya Jawa) yang disebar-luaskan melalui sesanti (nasihat bijak), paribasan (peribahasa), saloka (perumpamaan), atau butiran-butiran mutiara kearifan lokal Jawa, bahkan melalui seni pedhalangan (pewayangan), tembang Macapat (lagu atau tembang Jawa) dan sebagainya. Meski terkesan primordial atau bersifat kesukuan, tetapi nilai-nilai kearifan lokal Kejawen (budaya Jawa) tersebut bersifat universal. Jadi, meskipun penulis mengungkap dan menggali nilai-nilai kearifan lokal Jawa terutama menyangkut kepribadian dan kepemimpinan Jawa, nilai-nilai tersebut bisa digunakan dan diterapkan oleh siapa pun. Bukan hanya oleh orang Jawa saja, tapi siapa pun bisa mengaplikasikannya. Sekali lagi oleh karena nilai-nilai budaya Jawa bersifat universal dan bersifat baik tentunya.
