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...Jerome Feldman Aceh Art and Culture . By Holly S. Smith . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xii, 75 pp. $18.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 906 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of this theory, Michael Peletz nevertheless demonstrates...

...David Hicks Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State . By Elizabeth F. Drexler . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2008 . 287 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The tsunami that struck the shores of northern...

...Elizabeth F. Drexler Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem . Edited by Anthony Reid . Singapore : Singapore University Press ; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006 . 397 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Dianne Lewis Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760–1824 . By Lee Kam Hing . Kuala Lumpur : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xiii, 344 pp. $55.00. 786 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES omitted to reduce...

...James Bourk Hoesterey Becoming Better Muslims: Religious Authority and Ethical Improvement in Aceh, Indonesia . By David Kloos . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2017 . xvii, 212 pp. ISBN: 9780691176642 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...

... was writing. 15 These broadcasts, for an hour each evening, were directed by the veteran Sumatran nationalist Mohammad Samin (bin Taib), well-remembered both in East Sumatra and Aceh for his prominence as Medan leader of Sarekat Islam, editor of the radical Benih Merdeka, and legal agent, until...

... by Arab traders' reports between 846 and 950. A confusing element is the, out of historical sequence, mention of the Han dynasty emperor Wang Mang's mission to "Huangtche." By the time of Marco Polo (1292), Aceh was already Muslim and the historical reports turn to the accounts of powerful rulers...

... accelerated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, stimulated by increasing trade and by economic competition with neighboring groups. Chapter 4 deals with the rise of Aceh after the fall of Melaka in 1511. For almost two centuries, Aceh adopted various aspects of Malayu culture, particularly its...

... in two cases: East Java and Gayo (Aceh). The wide variety of local strategies is perceived as depending on preexisting political traditions and power relations vis-à-vis the state. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 List of References Anderson Benedict R. O'G . 1966...

... with discussions of incidents or writings drawn from Siegel's experience of contemporary Aceh. By far the greater part of the book, however, is devoted to a full translation and analysis of the greatest Acehnese epic poem, the Hikayat Pocut Muhamat. This is a classic of over five hundred tightly organized stanzas...

... of the massacres. There is more evidence now explaining why there has been an absence of evidence. Many of the victims, from Aceh in the west to Flores in the east, were disappeared in remarkably similar ways. The new research suggests that the conventional wisdom of the dualistic thesis needs to be rethought. One...

... concerns Aceh, and is for many Indonesianists a classic text, a must read that deserves broad attention beyond the field; the former a striking look at Indonesian public culture during the Suharto years may unsettle some area specialists but already has captured a readership outside Indonesian studies...

... and convey little useful information. They might have been 786 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES omitted to reduce printing costs. For a paperback publication, this volume is priced on the high side. A. T E R R Y R A M B O East-West Center The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760-1824. By LEE K A M...

... displacement as a strategy because control over population was key to legitimacy in the conflict. Edward Aspinall examines displacement in Aceh as the result of Indonesian military security strategies and GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, or Free Aceh Movement) campaigns against Javanese transmigrants. However...

... construction, reflecting political moves by minority groups in Sabah to assert for themselves a powerful identity in newly independent Malaysia. Despite its recent origins, this is has become “an increasingly stable ethnie with its own clear political program” (p. 209). Aceh, the focus of much of Reid's...

... to anthropologically informed readers and those interested in gender issues, its wealth of ethnographic data should also make it valuable reading for anyone interested in Malay and Islamic societies. SHARON A. CARSTENS Portland State University Aceh Art and Culture. By HOLLY S. SMITH. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University...

... conflict, the role of the ulamas, so often an issue in Aceh, is mentioned in passing, as when "Un-islamic behaviour" was used to help justify the dethronement of Jauhar al-Alam in 1815 (p. 206), but never fully explored. There is no discussion of the effects of the Dutch settlement at Padang on Aceh...

... "ungovernable" local chiefs (a colonial complaint), marriage alliances, long-distance riverine trade, and even, in Aceh, a series of Muslim queens. Aceh aside, palaces are hard to find even where royal grandeur was widely celebrated. Srivijaya, the southern seventh-century origin place of Malay royalty, seems...

... of Sumatra, especially Aceh, will read, interpret, discuss, and react to this book in the context of everyday politics under increasingly strong Shari'a policing not only in Aceh, but Indonesia more generally. I hope that the Indonesian translation of the book will be read carefully by the Shari'a...

...). The last five years have seen the publication of James T. Siegel's A New Criminal Type in Jakarta and the rerelease of his first book, The Rope of God (originally 1969)The latter concerns Aceh, and is for many Indonesianists a classic text, a must read that deserves broad attention beyond the field...