{"title":"Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution ed. by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah (review)","authors":"Hyun Kyung Lee","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"151 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44143976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The article explores the British Royal Navy’s encounter with disease in the Straits of Malacca from 1794 to 1815. Naval patrols normally protected vessels visiting the entrepôt cities of Penang and Malacca from piracy and privateering, and the Napoleonic Wars in Europe raised fears of a potential threat posed by French and Dutch warships. Naval vessels carried out repairs and purchased provisions in the ports, sharing facilities with the British East India Company. Their crews needed access to medical care to treat a variety of diseases, some endemic on the ships and others, such as malaria, contracted on land, and Penang provided some hospital care. Illness caused attrition among seamen on board Royal Naval vessels, and finding replacements locally was impossible. The Straits of Malacca was healthier than Bengal and Batavia but owing to poor hygiene and a lack of understanding of the aetiology of tropical diseases, death rates remained high.
{"title":"The Royal Navy and Disease in the Straits of Malacca, 1794–1815","authors":"Tham Junean, M. Samsudin","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article explores the British Royal Navy’s encounter with disease in the Straits of Malacca from 1794 to 1815. Naval patrols normally protected vessels visiting the entrepôt cities of Penang and Malacca from piracy and privateering, and the Napoleonic Wars in Europe raised fears of a potential threat posed by French and Dutch warships. Naval vessels carried out repairs and purchased provisions in the ports, sharing facilities with the British East India Company. Their crews needed access to medical care to treat a variety of diseases, some endemic on the ships and others, such as malaria, contracted on land, and Penang provided some hospital care. Illness caused attrition among seamen on board Royal Naval vessels, and finding replacements locally was impossible. The Straits of Malacca was healthier than Bengal and Batavia but owing to poor hygiene and a lack of understanding of the aetiology of tropical diseases, death rates remained high.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44440907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Kratoska, Dhevarajan Devadas, Abdiel Enrique Sánchez Revilla, M. Barr, Tan Tat Wai, R. Zainol, Benjamin J. Q. Khoo, Peter Borschberg, Danny Wong Tze Ken, I. Johnson, Darryl Lim, B. Luyt, Tan Sri Dato’Mubin Sheppard, P. Kratoska, F. A. Weld, M. Rasdi, T. Barker, S. Pillai
Abstract:During the early modern period in Europe, educated circles drew on dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopaedias, grammars, geographies, and cosmographies to understand the world in which they lived. These compendia built on information found in earlier publications of the same sort, supplemented by new details provided by traders and travellers with first-hand knowledge of different parts of the world. This article examines knowledge about Singapore and the Straits region circulating in Europe between circa 1511 and 1819, focusing on compendia entries touching on the Straits region, especially Singapore, Melaka, Johor, and Bintan. It traces the evolution of compendium knowledge as it moves through cycles of accumulation, transformation, and de-contextualization.
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"P. Kratoska, Dhevarajan Devadas, Abdiel Enrique Sánchez Revilla, M. Barr, Tan Tat Wai, R. Zainol, Benjamin J. Q. Khoo, Peter Borschberg, Danny Wong Tze Ken, I. Johnson, Darryl Lim, B. Luyt, Tan Sri Dato’Mubin Sheppard, P. Kratoska, F. A. Weld, M. Rasdi, T. Barker, S. Pillai","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the early modern period in Europe, educated circles drew on dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopaedias, grammars, geographies, and cosmographies to understand the world in which they lived. These compendia built on information found in earlier publications of the same sort, supplemented by new details provided by traders and travellers with first-hand knowledge of different parts of the world. This article examines knowledge about Singapore and the Straits region circulating in Europe between circa 1511 and 1819, focusing on compendia entries touching on the Straits region, especially Singapore, Melaka, Johor, and Bintan. It traces the evolution of compendium knowledge as it moves through cycles of accumulation, transformation, and de-contextualization.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"1 - 103 - 105 - 119 - 121 - 123 - 123 - 124 - 125 - 127 - 127 - 128 - 129 - 130 - 130 - 133 - 133 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42446829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Excerpt from Carl Gibson-Hill: Boats, Birds, Photography, and History in Late-Colonial Malaya","authors":"B. Luyt","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"89 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44752502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Reade: Town Planning British Malaya, 1921-1929 by Kamalruddin Shamsudin (review)","authors":"R. Zainol","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"134 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44492313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th Century Singapore by Kah Seng Loh et al (review)","authors":"Dhevarajan Devadas","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"127 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44713630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mubin Sheppard: Pioneering Works in Architectural Conservation in Malaysia by Zuraini Md Ali (review)","authors":"M. Rasdi","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"121 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66383638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A History of the People's Action Party: 1985–2021 by Shashi Jayakumar (review)","authors":"M. Barr","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"130 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41397505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University includes three human skulls from British North Borneo, now Sabah, taken and preserved as part of a headhunting tradition. Labelled as heads of Tangalung natives, they were accessioned by the Museum in 1889. Establishing the provenance of the skulls is fairly simple but determining their context is not. North Borneo became a British protectorate in 1888, with administrative authority in the hands of the North Borneo Chartered Company, but the company struggled to control remote parts of the territory where there was little British presence. It employed Dayaks from Sarawak as policemen to deal with the ethnically diverse population and put a stop to blood feuds and headhunting, but Dayaks had their own headhunting tradition and the heads in the museum were taken and processed as trophies by policemen. Presented to a colonial official, they became trophies of a different sort, ultimately displayed in a British museum.
{"title":"Three Skulls from Sabah in the Pitt Rivers Museum","authors":"Danny Wong Tze Ken","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University includes three human skulls from British North Borneo, now Sabah, taken and preserved as part of a headhunting tradition. Labelled as heads of Tangalung natives, they were accessioned by the Museum in 1889. Establishing the provenance of the skulls is fairly simple but determining their context is not. North Borneo became a British protectorate in 1888, with administrative authority in the hands of the North Borneo Chartered Company, but the company struggled to control remote parts of the territory where there was little British presence. It employed Dayaks from Sarawak as policemen to deal with the ethnically diverse population and put a stop to blood feuds and headhunting, but Dayaks had their own headhunting tradition and the heads in the museum were taken and processed as trophies by policemen. Presented to a colonial official, they became trophies of a different sort, ultimately displayed in a British museum.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"35 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46617792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum houses a large collection of shadow puppets from Malaysia, but very little is known about them except that the originated in Kelantan during the period of British colonial rule. Scant records exist explaining how they ended up in the museum's ethnographic holdings, or the social significance of the collection for the museum and for Kelantanese theatrical arts. Examining the puppets through both an aesthetic and curatorial lens allows us to expand our knowledge of museology and cross-cultural encounters, and contributes to discussions on the interrelationship between history, the performing arts, and the politics of collecting at the periphery of colonial Malaya.
{"title":"Curating Shadows: Malayan Shadow Puppets in Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum","authors":"I. Johnson, Darryl Lim","doi":"10.1353/ras.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum houses a large collection of shadow puppets from Malaysia, but very little is known about them except that the originated in Kelantan during the period of British colonial rule. Scant records exist explaining how they ended up in the museum's ethnographic holdings, or the social significance of the collection for the museum and for Kelantanese theatrical arts. Examining the puppets through both an aesthetic and curatorial lens allows us to expand our knowledge of museology and cross-cultural encounters, and contributes to discussions on the interrelationship between history, the performing arts, and the politics of collecting at the periphery of colonial Malaya.","PeriodicalId":39524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society","volume":"95 1","pages":"51 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44583893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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