IS BN 978-974-8434-89-6
WL Order Code 22 070
US$32.00
Bangkok 1999, 285 pp., illus., 8 pp. color
illus., 210 x 290 mm, pbk.
Eiseman, Fred B.;Ulat-Ulatan: Traditional Basketry in Bali
Available here, for the first time, is a detailed description of Ulat-ulatan, traditional
Balinese basketry, covering all the traditional types of Balinese baskets
and related woven materials, the materials from which they are made, and
photographs and diagrams of how they are made.
Utilitarian Balinese basketry
as a craft has long lived in the shadow of the more heavily hyped, flamboyant
painting, silver work, and wood carving.
Yet basketry is much more a product
of traditional Balinese culture than these other forms that have been specifically
created for the tourist trade and are seldom used by Balinese people themselves.
Long before souvenir seekers arrived in Bali, basketry was being made in
almost exactly the same fashion as one sees it today.
No Balinese household can
function without half a dozen or more varieties of these products, all made by
hand from native materials to meet the needs of daily chores.
They are rugged,
light in weight, cheap, functional, and available in every village market.
They
represent a craft made by Balinese people for Balinese consumption.
Visitors
to Bali will find that these crafts may be just as useful or even decorative in
their own homes.
IS BN 978-974-7534-11-5
WL Order Code 22 232
US$27.00
Bangkok 2001, 233 pp., 4 pp. maps, 10 pp.
color illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Hägerdal, Hans;Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects.
Lombok and Bali in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This research volume discusses a fascinating historical episode, the establishing
of Balinese Hindu rule over the predominantly Muslim population of Lombok,
concentrating on the years 1700–1748.
Materials covering this period are reexamined and further interesting information provided as to what happened at
the time, seen in a regional context, including ethnic and religious relationships
besides the cultural basis for legitimacy of leadership.
The broader aspect of
how a Hindu minority was able to rule a Muslim majority is of special interest,
also in respect to its outcome.
Deteriorating ethnic relationships in one part
of the island led to a rebellion in 1891, thus paving the way for Dutch colonial
conquest in 1894: the disruption caused by the arrival of the Dutch East Indian
Company in an area in the late 1600s having played a role in setting the stage for
the events here described.
Another example of Hindu rulers governing a mainly
Muslim population can be found in Kashmir.
IS BN 978-974-480-065-7
WL Order Code 22 438
US$39.00
Bangkok 2005, 263 pp., illus. in col., 1 map,
150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Howard, Michael C. & Naffi Sanggenafa eds.; Indigenous Peoples and
Migrants of Northern Papua, Indonesia
This study provides a contemporary look at social, cultural, and economic
aspects of the lives of these peoples.
While political problems associated with
Indonesia’s western province of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) have received a
great deal of international media attention, studies of the people of the province
are rarely available in English.
This is especially true in regard to the
people of the offshore islands, coast, and hinterland of the northern part of
the province from the Bird’s Head Peninsula to the border with Papua New
Guinea.
The region is inhabited by indigenous peoples speaking over 85
languages and by migrants from the islands of Sulawesi, Java, Flores, Lombok,
and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Many of the chapters in the book focus on
economic changes and their impact on people’s lives.
Chapters examine the
effects of transmigration, tourist projects, oil palm plantations, forestry projects,
and road construction on local communities.
Several chapters examine
different types of traditional material culture, such as carving and textiles,
and their place in these communities at present.
The Studies are accompanied
by maps, black and white photographs, and plates containing 124 color
photographs.
IS BN 978-974-8434-12-4
WL Order Code 21 970
US$28.00
Bangkok 1997, 223 pp., 225 illus., 150 x 210
mm, pbk.
Iyer, Alessandra;Prambanan: Sculpture and Dance in Ancient Java
A study of the dance reliefs of the ninth century AD temple of Siwa at the
Prambanan complex in central Java.
Previous attempts at identification of
these ancient reliefs were hampered by inadequate movement analysis of the
dance portrayed but in this book, for the first time, a complete identification
is presented, through a re-interpretation of tarchaeological data.
Using both
movement analysis and comparison with an authoritative reconstruction
model, the author rigorously examines each of the 62 reliefs and identifies
them as representations of the karana (dance movement units) of the Sanskrit
text from India on dance and drama, the Natyasastra.
These reliefs almost
certainly depict lord Siwa. They point to the presence throughout Asia of the
karana dance tradition wherever Saivism flourished and as they predate any
equivalent series found in India, they suggest that the idea of karana sculptural
series originated outside India and only subsequently reached the sub-continent.
This book has now also historical value after the 2006 earth quake
damaged the temple
IS BN 978-974-7534-27-6
WL Order Code 22 160
US$36.00
Bangkok 2000, first English trans. of 1922;
336 pp., 273 pp. illus., 210 x 290 mm, pbk.
Krause, Gregor & Karl With; Bali: People and Art
The first English translation of Bali, the popular second edition of a German
classic introduction to the island published in 1922.
The book was a bestseller
because of Gregor Krause’s unique photographs, which he made when he was
a medical doctor in the employ of the Dutch on Bali from 1912 until 1914.
The
introductory text covers almost all aspects of life and art on Bali as well as its
nature and its trade with neighboring islands.
It still is a remarkable introduction
to an island that flourished culturally before the onslaught of the tourist
industry. The attentive visitor will still recognize vistas of this rich past in the
scenes and especially in the people he’ll meet there nowadays.
IS BN 978-974-8495-77-4
WL Order Code 21 627
US$30.00
Bangkok 1993, 216 pp., 150 x 210 mm
Thong, Denny;
A Psychiatrist in Paradise: Treating Mental Illness in Bali
The book tells the story of a most remarkable attempt by an Indonesian doctor
trained in Western medicine, and in charge of a western-style hospital in Bali,
Indonesia, to use traditional healing practices in the treatment of mental illness.
Bali, idealized by many as the archetypal island paradise, has its fair share of
mental illness and, within its traditional culture, has developed ways of dealing
with such illness that are significantly different from those traditionally
espoused by Western medicine, but which are now beginning to gain support in
the West. For nearly two decades Dr. Denny Thong strove to integrate modern
(Western) health care systems with Balinese customs, decentralizing treatment
to the villages, reorganizing the hospital to become a focal point of the community
and, most controversially, utilizing the services of traditional healers.
Dr. Thong closely studied the ways in which the traditional healers worked, and
his survey of them and his descriptions and analyzes of their procedures add
immeasurably to our knowledge of the subject.
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