Publications
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De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
Creating Kabuki Plays
(2010)
This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
(2022)
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which ...
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
(2019)
The years leading up to the suppression of the Jesuits and the forty-one years, beginning in 1773, of the actual suppression, are analysed here, with special attention to individuals not usually covered in works dealing ...
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
(2022)
In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which ...
The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, Pre-1317 AH/1900 AD
(2018)
In, The Islamic Funerary Inscriptions of Bahrain, an illustrated catalogue of 150 gravestones with modern Arabic transcription and English translation is provided with discussion of gravestone chronology, types, manufacture, ...
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
(2015)
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, ...
Beyond Empire and Nation; The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1960s
(2012)
The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political ...
Transformational Ethics of Film
(2021)
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ...