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Sitor Situmorang, Toba na Sae; Sejarah lembaga sosial politik abad XIII-XX (Johann Angerler)

Raul Pertierra, Science, technology, and everyday culture in the Philippines (Greg Bankoff)

Françoise Gérard and François Ruf (eds), Agriculture in crisis; People, commodities and natural resources in Indonesia, 1996-2000 (Peter Boomgaard)

Kennet Sillander, Acting authoritatively; How authority is expressed through social action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo (Aurora Donzelli)

Kathleen M. Nadeau, Liberation theology in the Philippines; Faith in a revolution (Gareth Fisher)

Roy Ellen, On the edge of the Banda Zone; Past and present in the social organization of a Moluccan trading network (Gregory Forth)

Roy Ellen, On the edge of the Banda Zone; Past and present in the social organization of a Moluccan trading network (J.M. Gullick)

I.H.N. Evans, Bornean diaries, 1938-1942 (Fiona Harris)

S. Margana, Kraton Surakarta dan Yogyakarta 1769-1874 (Mason C. Hoadley)

Henry Frei, Guns of February; Ordinary Japanese soldiers’ views of the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore 1941-42 (Russell Jones)

Gerrit Knaap and Heather Sutherland, Monsoon traders; Ships, skippers and commodities in eighteenth-century Makassar (J. Thomas Lindblad)

David W. Fraser and Barbara G. Fraser, Mantles of merit; Chin textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh (Sandra A. Niessen)

Kees Snoek, E. du Perron; Het leven van een smalle mens (Frank Okker)

Arthur J. Dommen, The Indochinese experience of the French and the Americans; Nationalism and communism in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Vatthana Pholsena)

J.H.M.C. Boelaars and A.C. Blom, Mono Koame; ‘Wij denken ook’ (Anton Ploeg)

James J. Fox and Dionisio Babo Soares (eds), Out of the ashes; Destruction and reconstruction of East Timor (Johanna van Reenen)

Anke Niehof and Firman Lubis (eds), Two is enough; Family planning in Indonesia under the New Order 1968-1998 (Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill)

Andrew MacIntyre, The power of institutions; Political architecture and governance (Henk Schulte Nordholt)

Carol Ireson-Doolittle and Geraldine Moreno-Black, The Lao; Gender, power, and livelihood (Guido Sprenger)

David L. Gosling (with a foreword by Ninian Smart), Religion and ecology in India and Southeast Asia (Bryan S. Turner)

William C. Clarke, Remembering Papua New Guinea; An eccentric ethnography (Donald Tuzin)

Review essay Gerben Nooteboom: Competition, collateral damage, or ‘just accidents’? Three explanations of ethnic violence in Indonesia:
– Jacques Bertrand, Nationalism and ethnic conflict in Indonesia
– Cristina Eghenter, Bernard Sellato, and G. Simon Devung (eds), Social science research and conservation management in the interior of Borneo; Unravelling past and present interactions of people and forests
– Nancy Lee Peluso and Michael Watts (eds), Violent environments
– Günther Schlee (ed.), Imagined differences; Hatred and the construction of identity

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