Rares sont les travaux academiques contemporains concernant Singapour qui ne cherchent pas a demontrer l’exceptionnalite de la Cite-Etat. Cela n’est guere surprenant lorsque l’on sait a quel point, depuis sa fondation en 1965 a titre de republique pleinement independante, ses dirigeants et meme une proportion dominante de ses citoyens ont eu a cœur de faire valoir son caractere singulier. Singulier mais aussi profondement original, car, tout en etant largement autogenerees, les innovations de...
{"title":"Samuel Ling Wei Chan. Aristocracy of Armed Talent. The Military Elite in Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, 2019, XXVII + 495 p., ISBN 978-981-3250-07-9","authors":"R. D. Koninck","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2292","url":null,"abstract":"Rares sont les travaux academiques contemporains concernant Singapour qui ne cherchent pas a demontrer l’exceptionnalite de la Cite-Etat. Cela n’est guere surprenant lorsque l’on sait a quel point, depuis sa fondation en 1965 a titre de republique pleinement independante, ses dirigeants et meme une proportion dominante de ses citoyens ont eu a cœur de faire valoir son caractere singulier. Singulier mais aussi profondement original, car, tout en etant largement autogenerees, les innovations de...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44847028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book has a lineage. Its laudable aim is to further the “rapprochement” between South and Southeast Asia, “whose deeply connected histories have been forgotten for a long time,” by seeking new bases for coherent reintegration. First the 1941 collapse of the unifying British naval dominance from Aden to Hong Kong, then nationalism, notably on display in the rift between Sukarno and Nehru at the 1955 Bandung Conference, and finally the US model of Area Studies basing funding on separate Sou...
{"title":"Andrea Acri, Kashshaf Ghani, Murari Jha, and Sraman Mukherjee (eds.), Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites. Singapore: ISEAS - Yusuf Ish","authors":"A. Reid","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2153","url":null,"abstract":"This book has a lineage. Its laudable aim is to further the “rapprochement” between South and Southeast Asia, “whose deeply connected histories have been forgotten for a long time,” by seeking new bases for coherent reintegration. First the 1941 collapse of the unifying British naval dominance from Aden to Hong Kong, then nationalism, notably on display in the rift between Sukarno and Nehru at the 1955 Bandung Conference, and finally the US model of Area Studies basing funding on separate Sou...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":"39 1","pages":"227-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76472745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents observations collected during two fieldtrips conducted in 2019 on old settlement and associated sites dated prior to the sixteenth century CE in the North Sumatra Province, and in the adjacent areas of West Sumatra and Riau provinces. The Barus area on the west coast recently yielded numerous old Islamic inscribed tombstones, including one bearing an inscription in Indic script. This tombstone is stylistically similar to a tombstone we found in 2003 in the same graveyard. As both bear a very close date in 1350 CE, we suggest that they belong to the same grave, and that the deceased may have connections with the Minangkabau area and Pasai. Several places were visited along the west coast down to Natal and the Candi Simangambat area. Further south, the surveys led us to several sites in the Pasaman district which shelters a number of little known Hindu-Buddhist remains. Muara Takus and Tapak Mahligai in Riau, as well as several sites in the Medan area were also visited to collect information and observe their present state of preservation.
{"title":"Recent Archaeological Surveys in the Northern Half of Sumatra","authors":"D. Perret, Heddy Surachman, R. W. Oetomo","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2061","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents observations collected during two fieldtrips conducted in 2019 on old settlement and associated sites dated prior to the sixteenth century CE in the North Sumatra Province, and in the adjacent areas of West Sumatra and Riau provinces. The Barus area on the west coast recently yielded numerous old Islamic inscribed tombstones, including one bearing an inscription in Indic script. This tombstone is stylistically similar to a tombstone we found in 2003 in the same graveyard. As both bear a very close date in 1350 CE, we suggest that they belong to the same grave, and that the deceased may have connections with the Minangkabau area and Pasai. Several places were visited along the west coast down to Natal and the Candi Simangambat area. Further south, the surveys led us to several sites in the Pasaman district which shelters a number of little known Hindu-Buddhist remains. Muara Takus and Tapak Mahligai in Riau, as well as several sites in the Medan area were also visited to collect information and observe their present state of preservation.","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48008410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Calligraphic art was conceived by the Chinese as a technique allowing the acquisition of certain virtues, and the mastery of this art as a proof of eminent qualities. This art dates back to the ancient times. Calligraphy has also been practiced by artists, either amateurs or professionals, who had practical and economic motivations, such as some Ming loyalists who having refused to serve the new dynasty were compelled to rely on this art for negotiating everyday life. Here, we intend to explore the part played by calligraphy in a diasporic milieu, and more especially in Java where Chinese communities have a rather long, but quite eventful history. We will successively review the development of calligraphy during the Qing times, its ups and downs during the 20th century, and its revival during this century in relation with the new political conjuncture.
{"title":"Of the Use of Calligraphy in Sino-Javanese Communities (18th-Early 21st","authors":"C. Salmon","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2317","url":null,"abstract":"Calligraphic art was conceived by the Chinese as a technique allowing the acquisition of certain virtues, and the mastery of this art as a proof of eminent qualities. This art dates back to the ancient times. Calligraphy has also been practiced by artists, either amateurs or professionals, who had practical and economic motivations, such as some Ming loyalists who having refused to serve the new dynasty were compelled to rely on this art for negotiating everyday life. Here, we intend to explore the part played by calligraphy in a diasporic milieu, and more especially in Java where Chinese communities have a rather long, but quite eventful history. We will successively review the development of calligraphy during the Qing times, its ups and downs during the 20th century, and its revival during this century in relation with the new political conjuncture.","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49492988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In her prize-winning Islam Translated (2011) Ronit Ricci treats versions in different languages of a single text, the Book of One Thousand Questions, as “lenses” through which she examines “the intricate relationships between Islamization and literary and linguistic transformation” (4) across languages and cultures in the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia over several centuries. In her new book, texts, translations, and movement of people and ideas through time and space are still...
{"title":"Ronit Ricci, Banishment and Belonging. Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon","authors":"Tony Day","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2302","url":null,"abstract":"In her prize-winning Islam Translated (2011) Ronit Ricci treats versions in different languages of a single text, the Book of One Thousand Questions, as “lenses” through which she examines “the intricate relationships between Islamization and literary and linguistic transformation” (4) across languages and cultures in the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia over several centuries. In her new book, texts, translations, and movement of people and ideas through time and space are still...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43531909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“If the ‘new’ medium is digital, what is the message?” (p. 2). This question, recalling Marshall McLuhan’s famous quote “the medium is the message,” is at the core of Ross Tapsell’s 2017 Media power in Indonesia: oligarchs, citizens and the digital revolution. While similar questions have been addressed in an emerging body of academic work about digital culture in predominantly Western contexts, Tapsell rightly argues the issue is particularly relevant in light of the historical connections b...
{"title":"Ross Tapsell, Media power in Indonesia: oligarchs, citizens and the digital revolution. London; Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Inter","authors":"Edwin Jurriëns","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2278","url":null,"abstract":"“If the ‘new’ medium is digital, what is the message?” (p. 2). This question, recalling Marshall McLuhan’s famous quote “the medium is the message,” is at the core of Ross Tapsell’s 2017 Media power in Indonesia: oligarchs, citizens and the digital revolution. While similar questions have been addressed in an emerging body of academic work about digital culture in predominantly Western contexts, Tapsell rightly argues the issue is particularly relevant in light of the historical connections b...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46461536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I congratulate l’equipe Archipel on having stayed the course so heroically and creatively. Few journals are worth subscribing to for a lifetime, but Archipel is one. Its half-century is roughly the same period as my active life as a Southeast Asianist. I was there at the beginning as a subscriber and distant admirer, and I am happy to note that we are both still standing, though only Archipel with as much vigour as ever. It has retained over the half-century a remarkable mix of the deeply lea...
{"title":"An Appreciation of Archipel 1971-2020, from a Distant Fan","authors":"A. Reid","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2036","url":null,"abstract":"I congratulate l’equipe Archipel on having stayed the course so heroically and creatively. Few journals are worth subscribing to for a lifetime, but Archipel is one. Its half-century is roughly the same period as my active life as a Southeast Asianist. I was there at the beginning as a subscriber and distant admirer, and I am happy to note that we are both still standing, though only Archipel with as much vigour as ever. It has retained over the half-century a remarkable mix of the deeply lea...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49310194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ce livre de Gabriel Facal s’inscrit dans la continuite de sa these de doctorat d’anthropologie sociale, soutenue en 2012 a l’Universite d’Aix-Marseille. Cette these portait sur les reseaux socio-politiques de Banten, compris au travers de l’ethnographie de l’initiation rituelle penca du village de Rancalame – animee par un maitre jawara regionalement referentiel des rituels initiatiques – et des ramifications urbaines des initiations penca liees de pres ou de loin a ce maitre. Les enquetes me...
{"title":"Gabriel Facal, La foi et la force. L’art martial silat de Banten en Indonésie, Paris, Les Indes Savantes, 2018, 226 p. ISBN : 978-2-84654-467-2.","authors":"J. D. Grave","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2256","url":null,"abstract":"Ce livre de Gabriel Facal s’inscrit dans la continuite de sa these de doctorat d’anthropologie sociale, soutenue en 2012 a l’Universite d’Aix-Marseille. Cette these portait sur les reseaux socio-politiques de Banten, compris au travers de l’ethnographie de l’initiation rituelle penca du village de Rancalame – animee par un maitre jawara regionalement referentiel des rituels initiatiques – et des ramifications urbaines des initiations penca liees de pres ou de loin a ce maitre. Les enquetes me...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41895755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Democratization and Islamization amidst globalization are important developments shaping the socio-political features of post-Suharto Indonesia. Since the reform era (after May 1998) Islam has gradually moved to the center stage, coloring the public sphere of Indonesian society. This book was written in that context of rapid socio-political change, in which Islamization and economic globalization inevitably affected gender relations in contemporary Indonesia. Different from most other books o...
{"title":"Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press,","authors":"K. Dewi","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2266","url":null,"abstract":"Democratization and Islamization amidst globalization are important developments shaping the socio-political features of post-Suharto Indonesia. Since the reform era (after May 1998) Islam has gradually moved to the center stage, coloring the public sphere of Indonesian society. This book was written in that context of rapid socio-political change, in which Islamization and economic globalization inevitably affected gender relations in contemporary Indonesia. Different from most other books o...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Animal metaphors, the subject of this admirable book, characteristically use animals to talk about things that are not animals—most often human beings, their physical appearance, morals, or behavior. Gregory Forth, its author, has written extensively on eastern Indonesia, particularly on the Nage, a small society of subsistence cultivators in central Flores. In addition to a general account of Nage society, cosmology and religion (Beneath the Volcano, 1999), his recent work has focused largel...
{"title":"Gregory Forth, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society. Montreal & Kingston McGill-Queen’","authors":"C. Sather","doi":"10.4000/archipel.2247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.2247","url":null,"abstract":"Animal metaphors, the subject of this admirable book, characteristically use animals to talk about things that are not animals—most often human beings, their physical appearance, morals, or behavior. Gregory Forth, its author, has written extensively on eastern Indonesia, particularly on the Nage, a small society of subsistence cultivators in central Flores. In addition to a general account of Nage society, cosmology and religion (Beneath the Volcano, 1999), his recent work has focused largel...","PeriodicalId":51915,"journal":{"name":"Archipel-Etudes interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46878985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}