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Book The Ten Thousand Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Dermout
  • Publisher : New York Review of Books
  • Release : 2014-11-25
  • ISBN : 1590178823
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Ten Thousand Things written by Maria Dermout and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set between Holland and a remote Indonesian island, this intimate magical realism novel offers “an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of a legend” (Time). “Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmering strangeness—and familiarity. It is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny and dangerous world, full of mystery and violence, where objects tell tales, the dead come and go, and the past is as potent as the present. First published in Holland in 1955, Maria Dermoût's novel was immediately recognized as a magical work, like nothing else Dutch—or European—literature had seen before. The Ten Thousand Things is an entranced vision of a far-off place that is as convincingly real and intimate as it is exotic, a book that is at once a lament and an ecstatic ode to nature and life.

Book Colonial Collections Revisited

Download or read book Colonial Collections Revisited written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Phoenix Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of colonial collecting is complex and full of contradictions. Collectors often appreciated the 'other' cultures where they obtained collections, but at the same time they had a close relationship with the colonial authorities who were willing to subjugate societies with military violence. This book addresses colonial collecting with examples from the Dutch East Indies and, by means of comparison, with a discussion about collecting in British India. Since the 1990s the phenomenon of collecting has become an important part of anthropological discourse. This development touches upon the foundations of the discipline, since it throws light on how the white colonizers dealt with local cultures, and thus on how the formation of the anthropological discourse took place. The study of collecting can help us to develop an anthropology of intentionality, instrumentality and desire, as Anthony Shelton argues in one of the contributions to this book. Objects do not stop 'to live' when collected. Margaret Wiener discusses the magic of the kris, which is influential even in Europe, far from the context in which the magic is created. Other chapters treat in detail the military entanglement with collecting in the Dutch East Indies. There is also attention for ethnographic collecting in the context of scholarly activities, particularly in the chapter by Ruth Barnes. The broad picture of colonial collecting ,as presented in this book, includes an analysis of the appropriation of the Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist culture by means of collecting Javanese antiquities, detailed descriptions of colonial wars (North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, Bali and Lombok) and a discussion of the cultural heritage of the Ethische Politiek. With contributions by Ruth Barnes, Francine Brinkgreve, Hari Budiarti, Brian Durrans, Wahyu Ernawati, Pieter ter Keurs, Susan Legêne, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, Anthony Shelton, Harm Stevens, David Stuart-Fox and Margaret Wiener.

Book Travels in the East Indian Archipelago

Download or read book Travels in the East Indian Archipelago written by Albert Smith Bickmore and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indonesia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pieter ter Keurs
  • Publisher : Kit Pub
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789068324945
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Indonesia written by Pieter ter Keurs and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During their colonial rule over Indonesia, the Dutch collected art objects. For each object they exported to The Netherlands they had to leave a similar object in Indonesian care. In most cases the best quality objects remained in Indonesia. Thus a collection was built that consists of two complementary parts. This book describes the history of this collection and provides a unique insight into the way colonial powers collected art and at the same time tried to be just. In December 2005, the two halves of the collection were displayed together for the first time ever in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. This book marks that historic occasion. The Dutch and Indonesian collections are the top two Indonesian Art collections in the world. This book shows the highlights of both these collections in relation to each other. All objects were photographed especially for this book; many of the objects are unique and have never been photographed before.

Book Prelude to Colonialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jurrien van Goor
  • Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9789065508065
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Prelude to Colonialism written by Jurrien van Goor and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Northern Summer  Classic Reprint

Download or read book A Northern Summer Classic Reprint written by John Carr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Northern Summer Ah! Hapless stranger who without a tear Can this sad record of thy fate survey? No angry tempest laid thee breathless here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book An Account of the Inquisition at Goa  in India

Download or read book An Account of the Inquisition at Goa in India written by Gabriel Dellon and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Pilgrims  Way in South Africa

Download or read book The Pilgrims Way in South Africa written by Dorothea Fairbridge and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa

Download or read book Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa written by Brodie Cruickshank and published by London : Hurst and Blackett. This book was released on 1853 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mirror of the Indies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Nieuwenhuys
  • Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Mirror of the Indies written by Robert Nieuwenhuys and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the definitive literary history of the colonial Dutch East Indies and is partially distinguished from its predecessors by its discussion of materials ranging from natural history and religious sermons to pamphlets and the accounts of travelers from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. What emerges from this comprehensive approach is an unusually thorough and sensitive account of the manifold encounters of the Dutch with the East Indian societies that they conquered, tried to understand, and, finally, had to relinquish under the inevitable pressures of change and the desire for independence. This history records how a hybrid literature emerges from that of the colonial culture to become a distinct literature of its own and why the concepts derived from European cultural history--such as baroque or neoclassicism--are totally inapplicable to the works discussed here.

Book Storms  Ice  and Whales

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780802821256
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Storms Ice and Whales written by and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the Dutch East Indies in 1934 and later in The Netherlands, this account of ven der Does' nine-month journey aboard a whaler sailing to the Antarctic in 1923-24 provides details of the flora and fauna, including penguins and albatross, and describes such natural phenomena as the colors of the ice, the sea, and the sky. He also chronicles in detail the workings of the ship and describes the crew and their tasks. Ven der Does writes of the solitude as "Nowhere else in the world can one so deeply comprehend the meaning of endlessness as at the Pole, with its vast desolation."

Book The Case of the Dutch Ships Considered

Download or read book The Case of the Dutch Ships Considered written by Sir James Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Isaac Commelin s  Begin Ende Voortgangh

Download or read book Isaac Commelin s Begin Ende Voortgangh written by Charles Ralph Boxer and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crossing of Antarctica

Download or read book The Crossing of Antarctica written by Sir Vivian Fuchs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Smuts

Download or read book General Smuts written by Sarah Gertrude Millin and published by Simon Publications. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly documented, expertly written, even proofread by General Smuts himself, this is not only an engaging history of Africa but an invaluable description of the first world war, President Wilson's plans and the resulting peace treaties.

Book Mapping for Money

Download or read book Mapping for Money written by Kees Zandvliet and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For abstract see: Linda Peeters, in Bibliografische attenderingslijst voor docenten Neerlandistiek in het buitenland, jrg. 13, nr. 2 (juni 1998); p. 30; Jeremy Black, in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis jrg. 111, no. 3 (1998); p. 526-527; Leonard Blussé, in Itinerario vol. XXIV, no. 3/4 (2000); p. 213-214.

Book John Company

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur van Schendel
  • Publisher : Periplus Editions
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book John Company written by Arthur van Schendel and published by Periplus Editions. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a fascinating portrait of the Dutch East Indies Company and the inherent perils at sea and on the islands.