Download or read book Bumbling Through Sumatra written by Thomas A. Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bumbling characters stumble across the natural treasures and indigenous cultures of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. With more than 200 beautifully hand-drawn illustrations, the book's day-by-day account of the journey through Malaysia and Indonesia seeks to instill the reader with an environmental and cultural awareness of the region's rapidly changing situation.
Download or read book Bumbling Through Borneo written by Tom Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SILVER MEDAL winner in 2009 Independent Publisher's Book Awards and BRONZE MEDAL winner in 2009 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Follow the humorous day-by-day account of Bumbling Bob, a wayward American architect, as he finds himself on an uncertain journey deep into the heart of Borneo with a small troupe of intrepid backpackers. Share an arduous journey up the fabled Rejang River to experience life in a tradtional longhouse -- ending in a deadly race through virgin rainforest aboard runaway logging trucks to a world of subterranean splendor. Discover the Malaysia state of Sarawak -- a land abundant in nature's treasures -- ruled by a melting pot of cultures on a collision course with environmental catastrophe!
Download or read book Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway written by Lizzie Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War, and the transgenerational responses in Britain to this period of captivity. This book brings to light previously unpublished materials, including: · Exceptionally rare and detailed diaries, notebooks and letters from the railway · Memoirs from Sumatra, including detailed recollections and post-war statements written by key personnel on the railway, such as Medical Officers and interpreters · Remarkable original artwork created by POWs on Sumatra · Contemporaneous photographs taken inside the camps Employing theories of life-writing, memory and war representation, including transgenerational transmission, Lizzie Oliver focuses particularly on what these documents can tell us about how former POWs tried to share, preserve and make sense of their experiences. It is a wholly original study that is of great value to Second World War scholars and anyone interested in 20th-century Southeast Asian history or war and memory.
Download or read book Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra s Plantation Belt 1870 1979 written by Ann Laura Stoler and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relations of power and production that structured the course of plantation agriculture and the lives of those drawn into its field of force
Download or read book Hard Bargaining in Sumatra written by Andrew Causey and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Bargaining in Sumatra is an artfully written and penetrating examination of interactions between Western travelers and Toba Batak wood carvers in the souvenir marketplaces of Samosir Island, North Sumatra. Toba Batak carvings, ranging from simple human figures of wood to elaborately engraved water buffalo horns, are described in tourist guidebooks and by Toba Batak vendors alike as "traditional" and "antique," despite many recent changes and inventions in form. This pathbreaking work investigates how notions of place and self are constructed by the travelers and the Bataks in the context of ethnic tourism. The author proposes that these interactions be understood in light of Louis Marin's concept of utopics, suggesting that tourist venues such as hotels and marketplaces are neutral spaces where both locals and visitors can act out behaviors that would ordinarily be constrained by their respective cultures. The transformation of Toba Batak woodcarving is one result of such marketplace interactions. The Western tourist's desire for traditional art has encouraged Batak carvers to continue to make objects based on forms developed by their animist predecessors, the majority of whom converted to Christianity at the turn of the century. Toba Batak carving style, however, is far from static; artisans create innovative pieces that they frame within the same historically legitimizing narratives used for "traditional" objects.
Download or read book The Bumbling Traveller written by Thomas A Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the joy of travel sketching in a digital world with THE BUMBLING TRAVELLER - SKETCHING THE WORLD. Join wayward architect Tom Schmidt as he documents his international travels across distant lands in a variety of artistic styles. From subjects of architecture and the built environment to local people and handicrafts, experience the age-old tradition of putting pen to paper to remember the world around you, capture moments in time, tell stories and daydream. See the birth of the award-winning Bumbling Traveller(TM) Adventure Series!
Download or read book Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra written by G. L. Tichelman and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bumbling Through Hong Kong written by Tom Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of SILVER MEDAL in 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards and BRONZE MEDAL in 2013 Independent Publisher's Book Awards. Bumbling Through Hong Kong is an educational yet comical adventure through the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and its many manmade and natural environments. The reader is taken on an entertaining journey of discovery by following the misadventures of a fictitious cast of bumbling characters as they stumble across the cultural traditions, natural assets and historic relics of Hong Kong; including the numerous environmental and social challenges faced by one of the most densely inhabited places on the planet. With over 190 beautifully hand-drawn black and white illustrations, the book's day-by-day account of the bumbling backpackers' journey through Hong Kong seeks to instill the reader with an environmental and cultural awareness of the territory's rapidly changing situation and an appreciation of its natural and cultural assets.
Download or read book Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra written by Schnitger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1964-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Sumatra written by William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Sumatra written by William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origins of Music written by Nils L. Wallin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling
Download or read book Forgotten Kingdoms in Sumatra written by Friedrich Martin Schnitger and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in MDCCCXXIII written by John Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sumatra written by Eric Oey and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Naturalist s Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago written by Henry Ogg Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Sumatra Plates written by William Marsden (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
