...Carla Jones Back Door Java: State Formation and the Domestic in Working Class Java . By Jan Newberry . Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press , 2006 . 200 pp. $26.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Indonesia has figured prominently...

... is somewhat misleading. The book is not about all the music of wayang in Central Java, but only about grimingan , the solo accompaniment to the narrative and dialogue sections of a wayang played on the soft-sounding metallophone called the gender. Grimingan , barely audible, surrounds and envelops...

...R. E. Elson Riding the Dutch Tiger: The Dutch East Indies Company and the Northeast Coast of Java, 1680–1743 . By Luc Nagtegaal . Translated by Beverley Jackson . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . vii, 250 pp. $37.00 (paper). Distributed by Cellar Bookshop. Shallow Waters, Rising...

...Mason C. Hoadley War, Culture and Economy in Java, 1677–1726: Asian and European Imperialism in the Early Kartasura Period . By M. C. Ricklefs . Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1993 . xviii, 412 pp. $24.95. The British in Java 1811-1816: A Javanese Account . By Peter Carey . Oxford...

... of Islam, especially widespread among merchants and wealthier peasants. Finally, priyayi tradition was identified as an elite heritage strongly influenced by the Hindu-Buddhist values of earlier Javanese courts and linked to Java's traditional gentry and the administrative bureaucracy that replaced...

...Robert W. Hefner Children of the Colonial State: Population Growth and Economic Development in Java, 1795–1880 . By Peter Boomgaard . Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam Monographs 1. Amsterdam : Free University Press . 1989 . x, 247 Dfl 49.50. Upland Farming on Java, Indonesia...

...Clifford Geertz Some Social-Anthropological Obervations on Gotong Rojong Practices in Two Villages of Central Java . By Koentjaraningrat . Cornell Modern Indonesia Project Publications , 1961 . (Monograph Series). Structural Changes in Javanese Society: The Village Sphere . By D...

...Matthew Isaac Cohen Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History . By Ethan Mark . London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2018 . 368 pp. ISBN: 9781350022201 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 Arguably all modern...

...Kirsten L. Ziomek The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History . By Paul H. Kratoska . 2nd ed . Singapore : National University Press of Singapore , 2018 . xxvii, 407 pp. ISBN: 9789971696382 (paper). Japan's Occupation of Java...

...Evelyn Blackwood BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 915 in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia more broadly, as well as to the anthropological literature on kinship and matrilineal societies. SUZANNE BRENNER University of California, San Diego The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java...

...R. William Liddle The 1971 Election in Indonesia: an East Java Case Study . By Ken Ward . Clayton : Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 2, Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies , 1974 . viii, 215 pp. Bibliography, Glossary. A$3.75 Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Benedict R. Anderson Jogjakarta under Sultan Mangkubumi, 1749–1792: A History of the Division of Java . By M. C. Ricklefs . London : Oxford University Press , 1974 . xxv, 463 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $29.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 596...

...Marieke Bloembergen; Martijn Eickhoff Abstract Sites, here the eighth-century Buddhist shrine Borobudur and other remains of the Hindu-Buddhist past located in colonial (predominantly Islamic) Java, are in this article our analytical tool to provide insight into the local and transnational...

... of such independence came only as the result of the adverse course of the Pacific War in the latter part of 1944, when Allied landings in Indonesia appeared a probability. It was not until September of that year that, on instructions from Tokyo, the military administration on Java took steps which facilitated...

...Elizabeth Lyons The Art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, Java, Bali . By Philip Rawson . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1967 . 288 pp. Map, Illustrations, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 918...

...John Musgrave Literature of Java: Catalogue Raisonné of Javanese Manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and Other Public Collections in The Netherlands. Volume I, Synopsis of Javanese Literature, 900–1900 A. D. . By Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud . The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff...

...William H. Frederick Protest Movements in Rural Java: A Study of Agrarian Unrest in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries . By Sartono Kartodirdjo . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1973 . xv, 229 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $16.75. Copyright ©...

...Susan Russell Tourism, Heritage, and National Culture in Java: Dilemmas of a Local Community . By Heidi Dahles . Richmond, Surrey : Curzon , 2001 . xvii, 257 pp. £70.00/$125.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T...

...Kaja M. McGowan Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple Art of East Java . By Ann R. Kinney , with Marijke J. Klokke and Lydia Kieven . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2003 . 303 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 248 T H E J O U R...

...Bethany J. Collier Malone Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java . By Andrew N. Weintraub . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2004 . 295 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 Power Plays examines the development...