Publications
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Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
(2011)
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on ...
Proeve van een Bulische spraakkunst
(1951)
Indonesia
Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
(2020)
The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under ...
Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
(2021)
The contributions to this volume address conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics and investigate the ethics and aesthetic of representing ...
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
(2015)
Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist ...
Islamic Sensory History
(2024)
Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600–1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 9 (2000)
(2004)
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 ...
Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing
(2017)
In Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing, Claire E. Wolfteich presents a series of case studies in Christian spirituality, bringing mothers’ autobiographical writing into focus for theological reflection. ...
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
(2022)
Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than ...
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia
(2016)
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective ...