Book Reviews

• Main Author: Redactie KITLV
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BRILL 2008-12-01
• Series: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
• Online Access: http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/view/19

I Wayan Arka, Malcolm Ross (eds); The many faces of Austronesian voice systems; Some new empirical studies (René van den Berg)
 
 H.W. Dick; Surabaya, city of work; A socioeconomic history, 1900-2000 (Peter Boomgaard)
 
 Josiane Cauquelin; The aborigines of Taiwan: the Puyuma; From headhunting to the modern world. (Wen-Teh Chen)
 
 Mark Turner, Owen Podger (with Maria Sumardjono and
 Wayan K. Tirthayasa); Decentralisation in Indonesia; Redesigning the state (Dorian Fougères)
 
 Jérôme Samuel; Modernisation lexicale et politique terminologique; Le cas de l’Indonésien (Arndt Graf)
 
 Nicholas J. White; British business in post-colonial Malaysia, 1957-70: neo-colonialism or disengagement? (Karl Hack)
 
 Chin Peng; Alias Chin Peng; My side of history; As told to Ian Ward and Norma Miraflor (Russell Jones)
 
 C.C. Chin, Karl Hack (eds); Dialogues with Chin Peng; New light on the Malayan Emergency (Russell Jones)
 
 Saw Swee-Hock; Population policies and programmes in Singapore (Santo Koesoebjono)
 
 Domenyk Eades; A grammar of Gayo; A language of Aceh, Sumatra (Yuri A. Lander)
 
 Derek Johnson, Mark Valencia (eds); Piracy in Southeast Asia;
 Status, issues, and responses (Carolyn Liss)
 
 Niclas Burenhult; A grammar of Jahai (James A. Matisoff)
 
 Ann R. Kinney, Marijke J. Klokke, Lydia Kieven (photographs
 by Rio Helmi); Worshiping Siva and Buddha; The temple art of East Java (Dick van der Meij)
 
 Ruben Stoel; Focus in Manado Malay; Grammar, particles, and intonation (Don van Minde)
 
 Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (eds); Expressive genres
 and historical change; Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan. (Dianne van Oosterhout)
 
 Johszua Robert Mansoben; Sistem politik tradisional di Irian
 Jaya, Indonesia; Studi perbandingan (Anton Ploeg)
 
 Timothy B. Barnard (ed.); Contesting Malayness; Malay identities across boundaries (Nathan Porath)
 
 Joel Bradshaw, Francisc Czobor (eds); Otto Dempwolff’s grammar of the Jabêm language in New Guinea (Ger Reesink)
 
 Jon Fraenkel; The manipulation of custom; From uprising to intervention in the Solomon Islands (Jaap Timmer)
 
 Clive Moore; Happy isles in crisis; The historical causes for a failing state in Solomon Islands, 1998-2004 (Jaap Timmer)
 
 Peter Burns; The Leiden legacy; Concepts of law in Indonesia (Bryan S. Turner)
 
 Terry Crowley; Bislama reference grammar (Kees Versteegh)
 
 REVIEW ESSAY
 Matthew Isaac Cohen; Transnational and postcolonial gamelan
 Lisa Gold; Music in Bali
 Margaret J. Kartomi; The Gamelan Digul and the prison camp musician who built it; An Australian link with the Indonesian revolution
 Marc Perlman; Unplayed melodies; Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory
 Ted Solís (ed.); Performing ethnomusicology; Teaching and representation in world music ensembles
 Henry Spiller; Gamelan; The traditional sounds of Indonesia
 Andrew N. Weintraub; Power plays; Wayang golek theater of West Java
 
 REVIEW ESSAY
 Victor T. King; People and nature in Borneo
 Tim Bending; Penan histories; Contentious narratives in upriver Sarawak
 Rajindra K. Puri; Deadly dances in the Bornean rainforest; Hunting knowledge of the Penan Benalui, 2005
 Reed L. Wadley (ed.); Histories of the Borneo environment; Economic, political and social dimensions of change and continuity
 
 In: <i>Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde</i> no. 162 (2006), no: 4, Leiden