Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde is focused in particular on the linguistics, anthropology, and history of Southeast Asia, and more specifically of Indonesia.
The journal appears in four issues, running a total of roughly 600 pages annually.
The large majority of articles, notices, and reviews are published in English.
English title: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Published continuously since 1853.
Published between 1853 and 1948 as Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië (issn 1383-5408)

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Vol 168, No 1 (2012)

Table of Contents

Articles

Amrit Gomperts, Arnoud Haag, Peter Carey Abstract PDF
The sage who divided Java in 1052: Maclaine Pont’s excavation of Mpu Bharada's hermitage-cemetery at Lĕmah Tulis in 1925 1-25
Susan Rodgers Abstract PDF
Sutan Pangurabaan rewrites Sumatran language landscapes: The political possibilities of commercial print in the late colonial Indies 26-54
David Hicks Abstract PDF
Indexing social space: A marketplace in Timor-Leste 55-73
Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin Abstract PDF
The diversion of the village gods: A criminal turn in the biography of Balinese copperplate inscriptions 74-99
Sher Banu A.L. Khan Abstract PDF
What happened to Sayf al-Rijal? 100-111

Review essays

Jaap Anten Abstract PDF
Overburdening: Two books on the British politics towards Southeast Asia from 1943 to 1965 112-117
Andre Syahreza Abstract PDF
The topicality of pre-colonial Indonesian heroes: Recent popular fiction from Indonesia 118-129

Book reviews

Abstract PDF
Book reviews 130-160
Harry A. Poeze Abstract PDF
Korte signaleringen 161-171


ISSN: 0006-2294