...R. E. Elson Lombok: Conquest, Colonization and Underdevelopment, 1870–1940 . By Alfons van der Kraan . Singapore : Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) (Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publication Series No. 5), 1980 . xiv , 277 pp. Plates, Tables, Maps, Notes...

...Francisco B. Benitez Puspakrema: A Javanese Romance from Lombok . By Th. C. van der Meij . Leiden : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Universiteit Leiden , 2002 . 230 pp. €22.69 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 254 T H E J O U...

... and with the aim of closing some scholarly lacunae, ethnomusicologist David D. Harnish's book is based on two decades of fieldwork on a festival held on Lombok Island that includes both Balinese and Sasak music and ritual dance. The Sasak are the majority indigenous population on Lombok, a small island directly...

.... The U n k n o w n Balinese. By INGELA GERDIN. Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis (Gothenburg Studies in Social Anthropology, no. 4), 1982. 246 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Glossary, Bibliography. SKr90. It is heartening to see the number of contributions to the contemporary literature on Lombok...

... established himself in Lombok to take advantage of the island's export rice trade, which had grown in importance with the rise of world food prices and the introduction of the so-called Cultivation System, which favored the production of coffee, sugar, and indigo over rice, in Java. The Dutch feared...

... Platt's book Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia: Women Negotiating Informal Marriage, Divorce and Desire offers insight into rural Sasak patterns of marriage and divorce. Located on the island of Lombok in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Sasak are a staunchly Muslim ethnic group...

.... Ingela Gerdin's report on West Lombok examines BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 251 changes in property and labor relations during the past century, revealing a pattern of commercialization rather than involution. The third category of essays is clearly anthropological, emphasizing concrete examples...

..., Bibliography. SKr90. It is heartening to see the number of contributions to the contemporary literature on Lombok increasing. These two works, by Swedish anthropologists who were colleagues in the field but who pursued their research independently, are based on doctoral research carried out in West Lombok...

..., Errington builds an even more remarkable dichotomy that divides most of island Southeast Asia between a "Centrist Archipelago" that extends from Java to Luzon, embracing the Malay Peninsula in the west and Halmahera in the east, and "Eastern Indonesia," which stretches from Lombok to Aru. It is difficult...

.... The synopsis is a chronological record and thus a history of what has been written in Javanese in the past millennium, and, since it deals with writings in Javanese, the review extends to part of the literature produced in Bali and Lombok, to that which Pigeaud calls Javanese-Balinese. The synopsis...

..., the Moluccas, and the Lesser Soenda Islands from Lombok to the Tanimbar group. Here, islands with steep, rugged mountains, short rivers and narrow coastal plains rise abruptly from deep sea basins, manifesting the active tectonic movements. In contrast, in the western and eastern parts of the Archipelago...

... University Puspakrema: A Javanese Romance from Lombok. By TH. C. VAN DER MEIJ. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Universiteit Leiden, 2002. 230 pp. 22.69 (paper). Puspakrema: A Javanese Romance from Lombok is a problematic text but inevitably so. From his choice of alphabet...

... Java to Luzon, embracing the Malay Peninsula in the west and Halmahera in the east, and "Eastern Indonesia," which stretches from Lombok to Aru. It is difficult to relate this division to any other categorization of the region. It ignores the comparative linguistic research of the past twenty years...

... of the literature produced in Bali and Lombok, to that which Pigeaud calls Javanese-Balinese. The synopsis is partially in the form of a matrix; along one dimension are the temporal-local divisions of the Pre-Islamic period, that is, primarily East Java to 1500, of Javanese Bali and Lombok, 1500 to 1900...

... only by a single manuscript from Lombok, but in 1979 new versions of the poem were discovered in Bali. Stuart Robson's translation is based on a working text by Hedi Hinzler which takes account of the better readings from the new manuscripts. The previous English language translation of the Desawarnana...

... consideration of economic conditions in four Thai villages and Ruth Krulfeld's comparison of two Sasak villages on Lombok, deal with processes of change that are immensely complicated, and where many variables, including government policy and changing market conditions, have profound 424 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...: marriage among the Surenese nobility on Lombok (Sven Cederroth); naming patterns and address customs in Minahasa (Will LundstromBurghoorn); changing patterns of neighborhood cooperation and reciprocity in Kelantan in the mid-1960s (Ingrid Rudie); and a Marxist analysis of kinship in the New Guinea...

... public figures on stage (p. 227). Certain Komedie Stamboel plays, such as one about the Lombok War (1899–1900), were banned: Resistance themes could have been communicated to illiterate publics through the Komedie's Malay. The Dutch feared the idea that one attack could kill unprepared Dutch troops...

... (Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes, and Java), and the western Lesser Sundas (Bali, Lombok, and Sumbawa). The central maize area, where corn is the mainstay of subsistence, covers the eastern Lesser Sundas and most of the southern Moluccas, as well as the Sula Islands in the northern Moluccas. The eastern sago zone...

... at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia offers a rare entry into a rural Sasak community to understand how people in this impoverished region cope with the fragility of life. The Sasak are an ethnic group living on the island of Lombok, lying just east of Bali in the province of East Nusa...