Publications
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The Stone Age of Indonesia
(1972)
The first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia was published as Volume 21 (1957) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Contemporary Indonesian Film; Spirits of Reform and ghosts from the past
(2012)
This highly informative book explores the world of Post-Soeharto Indonesian audio-visual media in the exiting era of Reform. From a multidisciplinary approach it considers a wide variety of issues such as mainstream and ...
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.
The Jesuit Encounters with Islam in the Asia-Pacific
(2023)
This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian ...
Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
(2015)
This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus ...
Philo of Alexandria
(1988)
The first author in which the traditions of Judaic thought and Greek philosophy flow together in a significant way is Philo of Alexandria.This study presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of Philo's knowledge ...
Een 16de eeuwse Maleise vertaling van de Burda van al-Būṣīrī
(1955)
Indonesia
Aus der Welt gefallen
(2019)
Drawing from the archive of the Perthes publishing house, this study reconstructs how cast away explorers shaped not only the literary imagination but also the history of cartography. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, ...
The Dynastic Centre and the Provinces
(2014)
The dynastic centre and the provinces were linked by agents and ritual occasions. This book includes contributions by specialists examining these connections in late imperial China, early modern Europe, and the Ottoman ...
Uma politics
(2008)
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...
UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
(2018)
Galand critically spells out a comprehensive conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to the various limits to the International Criminal Court’s exercise of jurisdiction over ...
Blockchain and Private International Law
(2023)
Blockchain is the first global mechanism for the transfer and storage of value. Despite being conceived as an alternative to state and law, the technology and its use cases raise many legal questions, most notably, regarding ...
The Stone Age of Indonesia
(1957)
This first edition of The Stone Age of Indonesia has been replaced by the second edition, which is published as Volume 61 (1972; ISBN 9024713005) in the series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- ...
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education
(2020)
Doing Critical and Creative Research in Adult Education brings together leading and emerging scholars in adult education in order to capture the vitality and complexity of contemporary adult education research, marked by ...
Religion and Secularity
(2013)
Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of „secularity“ in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.; ...
The Peasants' Revolt of Banten in 1888
(1966)
Indonesia
Jesuits and the Natural Sciences in Modern Times, 1814–2014
(2019)
From 1814, linked to their educational work, Jesuits made significant contributions to the natural sciences, especially in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, seismology, terrestrial magnetism, mathematics, and biology ...
Medicine in Ancient Assur
(2021)
In Medicine in Ancient Assur Troels Pank Arbøll offfers a microhistorical study of a single exorcist named Kiṣir-Aššur who practiced medical and magical healing in the ancient city of Assur (modern northern Iraq) in the ...
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe
(2016)
The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe since its publication in 1959. Readership: The book aims at a relatively broad readership ...
Jesuits in Africa
(2022)
Jesuits have been in Africa since the founding of their order, yet their history there remains poorly researched. Although scholars have begun to focus on specific regions such as Congo, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe, a comprehensive ...
De Uma-taal (West Midden-Celebes)
(1964)
Indonesia
Metaphysical Poems
(2023)
Adam Mickiewicz (1798 – 1855) was the greatest Polish Romantic poet, and one of the great intellectual and literary figures of the first half of the 19th century in Europe. Through his verses, as well as his efforts as a ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 14 (2008)
(2010)
International law
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 2 (1992)
(1994)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
The First Contest for Singapore 1819-1824
(1959)
Indonesia
Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage
(2017)
Indigenous rights to heritage have only recently become the subject of academic scholarship. This collection aims to fill that gap by offering the fruits of a unique conference on this topic organised by the University of ...
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
(2016)
In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information. ...
Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature
(2004)
This is the first part of a new narratological history of Greek literature, which deals with the definition and boundaries of narrative and the role of narrators and narratees.; Readership: All those interested in ancient ...
Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
(2012)
Focusing on concepts, practices and images associated with purity in the ancient Mediterranean, this volume contributes new aspects to the current discussion about the forming of religious traditions, from a comparative ...
Memory and Identity in the Learned World
(2022)
Accounts and analyses of the formation of scholarly and scientific communities in the early modern period by means of memory and collective identity.
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
(2007)
This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.; ...
Relationality and Learning in Oceania
(2020)
Relationality and Learning in Oceania: Contextualizing Education for Development critically engages debates in comparative education and international development relating to context, culture, language and indigenous ...
Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe, 1548–1773
(2018)
A survey of Jesuit schools and universities across Europe from 1548 to 1773 by Paul F. Grendler. The article discusses organization, curriculum, pedagogy, enrollments, and relations with civil authorities with examples ...
Handbook of Rituals in Contemporary Studies of Religion
(2024)
This book brings together leading international scholars with the aim of exploring ritual perspectives in the study of contemporary religions. It combines significant theoretical and methodological reflections and applies ...
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja
(2013)
Making a Living between Crisis and Ceremonies offers an account on the practice of everyday life of the Torajan people both in the highlands of Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) and elsewhere (Makassar, Jakarta, ...
Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
(2019)
Conceived in optimism but baptized with blood, Jesuit missions to the British Isles and Ireland withstood government repression, internal squabbles, theological disputes, political machinations, and overbearing prelates ...
Critical Perspectives on Interreligious Education
(2020)
In Experiments in Empathy: Critical Reflections on Interreligious Education, the contributors provide a roadmap for practicing and developing innovative ways to teach religion that promotes interfaith understanding and ...
Semiotik der Verewigung
(2020)
This monograph systematically examines, within the intersection of literary and cultural studies as well as semiotics, intralinguistic procedures intended to record information as permanently as possible. In doing so, it ...
The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production
(2021)
Over the past few decades, a growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the ‘School of Salamanca’ for the emergence of colonial normative regimes and the formation of a language of normativity on a global ...