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1	This Earth of Mankind more books like this by Pramoedya Ananta Toer add to wishlist Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world. see all copies from $2.92! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The religion of Java more books like this by Clifford Geertz add to wishlist These ethnographic accounts by cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz are the result of his field work in Java in the early '50s. see all copies from $5.83! new only from $25.28! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Jakarta Plot more books like this by R Karl Largent add to wishlist After the world's most powerful nations implore the Chinese government to stop nuclear testing or face sanctions, a group of communist terrorists hold the world's leaders hostage. Largent is "a writer to watch," says "Publishers Weekly." Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.38! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The girl from the coast more books like this by Pramoedya Ananta Toer add to wishlist In feudal Java, where both privilege and poverty lived side-by-side, women were little more than chattel. From the world-renowned author of "The Mute's Soliloquy" and "The Buru Quartet" comes a heartbreaking novel about innocence and power. see all copies from $6.97! new only from $17.29! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Shifting Languages more books like this by James Joseph Errington, Judith Irvine (Editor), Bambi Schieffelin (Editor) add to wishlist Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers. This remarkable growth, unprecedented in the development world, is ... see all copies from $6.39! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Structure & Style in Javanese: A Semiotic View of Linguistic Etiquette more books like this by J. Joseph Errington add to wishlist see all copies from $2.40! new only from $3.19! \| first editions \| SVS
7	A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java more books like this by Andrew Beatty add to wishlist Andrew Beatty lived with his family for two and a half years in a village in East Java. When he arrived, he was entranced by a strange and sensual way of life, an unusual tolerance of diversity. Mysticism, Islamic piety and animism coexisted peacefully; the ancient traditions of the shadow play, of spirit beliefs and were - tigers seemed set to ... see all copies from $16.91! new only from $16.91!
8	All Four Engines Have Failed: The True and Triumphant Story of Flight Ba 009 and the "Jakarta Incident" more books like this by Betty Tootell add to wishlist see all copies from $62.17!
9	Letters of a Javanese princess more books like this by Kartini add to wishlist Translated From The Original Dutch By Agnes Louise Symmers With A Foreword By Louis Couperus. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java more books like this by Nancy K Florida, Nancy K Florida add to wishlist Located at the juncture of literature, history, and anthropology, "Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future "charts a strategy of how one might read a traditional text of non-Western historical literature in order to generate, with it, an opening for the future. This book does so by taking seriously a haunting work of historical prophecy inscribed ... see all copies from $5.98! new only from $6.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	The Political Economy of Mountain Java: An Interpretive History more books like this by Robert W Hefner add to wishlist A rich and sensitive portrait of a changing peasantry, this study is also a general inquiry into the nature of status, class, and community in the developing world. Robert Hefner presents an analysis designed to bridge the gap between village studies and social history. He describes the forces that have shaped upland politics and society from pre ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $24.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	On the Subject of "Java" more books like this by John Pemberton add to wishlist What are the limits of cultural critique? What are the horizons? What are the political implications? John Pemberton explores these questions in this far-reaching ethnographic and historical interpretation of cultural discourse in Indonesia since 1965. "This is a wonderful book-insightful, funny, engrossing. Through the subject of 'Java,' it ... see all copies from $3.80! new only from $23.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Japanese Lives: Women and Men in Modern Indonesian Society more books like this by Walter L Williams add to wishlist Java is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java more books like this by Ronald Lukens-Bull add to wishlist This book is an examination of how Muslims in Java, Indonesia, are using education and other arenas to negotiate both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalization, and a supposed clash of civilizations. see all copies from $21.08! new only from $30.92! \| SVS
15 view cover	From Cosmogony to Exorcisim in a Javanese Genesis more books like this by Stephen Cavana Headley add to wishlist In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was immediately the subject of debate among students of ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $37.89! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java more books like this by Nancy L Peluso add to wishlist Millions of Javanese peasants live alongside state-controlled forest lands in one of the world's most densely populated agricultural regions. Because their legal access and customary rights to the forest have been severely limited, these peasants have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources. This book untangles the complex of peasant ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $26.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Bali, Java in My Dreams more books like this by Christine Jordis add to wishlist From ancient temples to the muddy streets of Jakarta, from the volcano to the mini-cab, Christine Jordis leads an intoxicating, sensual tour of Indonesia. Relying on atmosphere and sensation over fact and statistic, Christine Jordis has written a deeply personal, vividly impressionistic account of several journeys to the Indonesian islands of Bali ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.72! \| SVS
18 view cover	Java, the garden of the East more books like this by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore add to wishlist Eliza Rumaha Scidmore was born October 14, 1856 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America and died November 3, 1928 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a journalist and a traveller and spent long periods in in Alaska, Japan, China, Java and India. In this book about Java written in 1912, Scidmore, who clearly loved the subject is very ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $17.02! \| first editions \| SVS
19	The way of a boy : a memoir of Java more books like this by Ernest Hillen add to wishlist This is a chronicle of the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy (aged 8-11) in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. The year is 1942, World War II is raging and the Japanese have just invaded the island. Overnight - and for the next three and a half years - life is ruled by tension, fear and unpredictability as the boy struggles to endure ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Performance Events more books like this by Jan Mrazek (Editor) add to wishlist Solid and accessible scholarship about a multifaceted form of art. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $54.92! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ricklefs: The Seen & Unseen Worlds more books like this by Merle C Ricklefs add to wishlist In this work Professor M. C. Ricklefs explores the nexus between religious belief and mundane behaviour in mid-eighteenth century Java - exploding widely accepted stereotypes about the role of Islam in Javanese civilisation as he does so. This study rests upon a vast range of Javanese and Dutch sources. Readers will gain a unique sense of how ... see all copies from $15.81! new only from $17.96! \| SVS
22 view cover	50 years of silence more books like this by Jan Ruff-O'Herne add to wishlist The long idyllic summer of Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned along with her family in a prison camp, and then, in February 1944, when she was 21, she was enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army. This is her story of how, with her faith and ... see all copies from $11.45! new only from $24.94! \| first editions \| SVS
23	The Social History of an Indonesian Town more books like this by Clifford Geertz add to wishlist From this field work done in the '50s in Indonesia, Clifford Geertz was to move from practical ethnography to a more symbolic and comparative approach eventually exemplified in his classic INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $53.50! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Beginnings of Buddhist Art & Other Essays in Indian & Central-Asian Archeology more books like this by A. Foucher, L. A. Thomas (Translator) add to wishlist A. Foucher, of the University of Paris, requires no introduction to the student of Buddhist Art. This volume, originally written in French, is a collection of his essays and addresses in various serial and periodical publications.9 essays comprise of this book, they are: The beginnings of Buddhist art, (first published in the "Journal Asiatique", ... see all copies from $29.00! new only from $29.00!
25 view cover	Performance in Java and Bali more books like this by B UK Arps add to wishlist This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. see all copies from $20.16! new only from $58.98! \| SVS

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