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Cultural History In Focus | “Who Is the Dalang?” by Matthew Isaac Cohen from Tablet
Cultural History In Focus | “Who Is the Dalang?” by Matthew Isaac Cohen from Tablet
Cultural History In Focus | “Between resistance and co-operation; Contact zones in the Aru Islands in the VOC period” by Hans Hägerdal
Cultural History In Focus | “Between resistance and co-operation; Contact zones in the Aru Islands in the VOC period” by Hans Hägerdal
Cultural History In Focus | “Pangolin, Rama, and the garden in Lanka in the 9th century CE: A few notes on a symbolically powerful “anteater” by Jiri Jakl
Cultural History In Focus | “Pangolin, Rama, and the garden in Lanka in the 9th century CE: A few notes on a symbolically powerful “anteater” by Jiri Jakl
Cultural History In Focus | “Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “Dayak ‘Jungle and River Experts’ and Dutch West New Guinea Exploration, 1900-1940” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “The Brisbane Museum’s Collection of Queensland Shields” by Bill Evans from Tribal Art Magazine + Rainforest Shields: A Tribute to Bill Evans
Cultural History In Focus | “The Brisbane Museum’s Collection of Queensland Shields” by Bill Evans from Tribal Art Magazine + Rainforest Shields: A Tribute to Bill Evans
Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Ku and the Battlefield of Authenticity: A Hawaiian Feather Image between Empathic and Objectified Authenticity” by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
Cultural History In Focus | “Ku and the Battlefield of Authenticity: A Hawaiian Feather Image between Empathic and Objectified Authenticity” by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
Cultural History In Focus | “Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent” by Michaela Appel
Cultural History In Focus | “Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent” by Michaela Appel
Cultural History In Focus | “Macanas: The Art of Clubs from Amazonia” by Alexandre Bernand
Cultural History In Focus | “Macanas: The Art of Clubs from Amazonia” by Alexandre Bernand
Cultural History In Focus | “Warfare, Pacification, and Environment: Population Dynamics in the West Borneo Borderlands (1823‑1934)” by Reed L. Wadley
Cultural History In Focus | “Warfare, Pacification, and Environment: Population Dynamics in the West Borneo Borderlands (1823‑1934)” by Reed L. Wadley
Cultural History In Focus | “A.W. Nieuwenhuis Across Borneo (1894-1994)” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “A.W. Nieuwenhuis Across Borneo (1894-1994)” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “The Colonial Official as Ethnographer: VOC Documents as Resources for Social History in Eastern Indonesia” by Hans Hägerdal
Cultural History In Focus | “The Colonial Official as Ethnographer: VOC Documents as Resources for Social History in Eastern Indonesia” by Hans Hägerdal
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tropics and the East-Central European Gaze: The Natural World of Southeast Asia in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings” by Tomasz Ewertowski
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tropics and the East-Central European Gaze: The Natural World of Southeast Asia in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings” by Tomasz Ewertowski
Arts of Borneo Redux
Arts of Borneo Redux
Cultural History In Focus | “Primates and Birds of Sabulungan” by Juniator Tulius & Linda Burman-Hall
Cultural History In Focus | “Primates and Birds of Sabulungan” by Juniator Tulius & Linda Burman-Hall
Cultural History In Focus | “The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “The Amorphous Nature of Coastal Polities in Insular Southeast Asia: Restricted Centres, Extended Peripheries” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “Spain’s Well-Kept Secret: Northwest Coast Art in the Museo de América” by Araceli Sanchez Garrido from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Spain’s Well-Kept Secret: Northwest Coast Art in the Museo de América” by Araceli Sanchez Garrido from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Honoring of the Successful Yahray Warriors” by Niels Beckers
Cultural History In Focus | “Honoring of the Successful Yahray Warriors” by Niels Beckers
Review of John G. Kreifeldt’s “Woven Power: Ritual Textiles of Sarawak and West Kalimantan” by Jeffrey B. Spurr
Review of John G. Kreifeldt’s “Woven Power: Ritual Textiles of Sarawak and West Kalimantan” by Jeffrey B. Spurr
Cultural History In Focus | “Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu: Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms” by Yancey Orr
Cultural History In Focus | “Coconuts and the Emergence of Violence in Sulu: Beyond Resource Competition Paradigms” by Yancey Orr
Cultural History In Focus | “Material Words: The Aesthetic Grammar of Toraja Textiles, Carvings, and Ritual Language” by Aurora Donzelli
Cultural History In Focus | “Material Words: The Aesthetic Grammar of Toraja Textiles, Carvings, and Ritual Language” by Aurora Donzelli
“Jaraik: Origin and Uses of an Ancient Mentawaian Design” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
“Jaraik: Origin and Uses of an Ancient Mentawaian Design” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
Cultural History In Focus | “Tongan Club Iconography: An Attempt to Unravel Visual Metaphors Through Myth” by Frans-Karel Weener
Cultural History In Focus | “Tongan Club Iconography: An Attempt to Unravel Visual Metaphors Through Myth” by Frans-Karel Weener
Cultural History In Focus | “If You Can Keep Your Head: An Analysis of Torajan Headhunting” by Mark Hobart
Cultural History In Focus | “If You Can Keep Your Head: An Analysis of Torajan Headhunting” by Mark Hobart
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Cultural History In Focus | “The Headhunter as Hero: Local Traditions and Their Reinterpretation in National History” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | “The Headhunter as Hero: Local Traditions and Their Reinterpretation in National History” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | “The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo” by Bernard Sellato from Living and Past Megalithisms: Interwoven Approaches
Cultural History In Focus | “The Ngorek of the Central Highlands and ‘Megalithic’ Activity in Borneo” by Bernard Sellato from Living and Past Megalithisms: Interwoven Approaches
Cultural History In Focus | “Houses, Graves and the Limits of Kinship Groupings among the Sa'dan Toraja” by Roxana Waterson
Cultural History In Focus | “Houses, Graves and the Limits of Kinship Groupings among the Sa'dan Toraja” by Roxana Waterson
Cultural History In Focus | “Atua: Sacred Gods of Polynesia” by Michael Gunn from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Atua: Sacred Gods of Polynesia” by Michael Gunn from Tribal Art Magazine
“Dayak Shields: Courting and Defying Death” by Steven G. Alpert from War Art & Ritual | Shields from the Pacific
“Dayak Shields: Courting and Defying Death” by Steven G. Alpert from War Art & Ritual | Shields from the Pacific
Cultural History In Focus | “Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia 1904-1920” by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
Cultural History In Focus | “Idols and Art: Missionary Attitudes toward Indigenous Worship and the Material Culture on Nias, Indonesia 1904-1920” by Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
Cultural History In Focus | “Speaking to the Spirits: Thinking Comparatively about Women in Asian Indigenous Beliefs” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Speaking to the Spirits: Thinking Comparatively about Women in Asian Indigenous Beliefs” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “The Symbolism of Baduy Adat Clothing: On the Efficacy of Colours, Patterns and Plants” by Jet Bakels from Weaving Patterns of Life
Cultural History In Focus | “The Symbolism of Baduy Adat Clothing: On the Efficacy of Colours, Patterns and Plants” by Jet Bakels from Weaving Patterns of Life
Cultural History In Focus | “Sultans’ Palaces and Museums in Indonesian Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “Sultans’ Palaces and Museums in Indonesian Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “The Merchant and the King: Political Myths of Southeast Asian Coastal Polities” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “The Merchant and the King: Political Myths of Southeast Asian Coastal Polities” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “On Losing and Getting a Head: Warfare, Exchange, and Alliance in a Changing Sumba, 1888-1988” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | “On Losing and Getting a Head: Warfare, Exchange, and Alliance in a Changing Sumba, 1888-1988” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | “Family Stories: Oral Traditions, Memories of the Past, and Contemporary Conflicts over Land in Mentawai, Indonesia” by Juniator Tulius
Cultural History In Focus | “Family Stories: Oral Traditions, Memories of the Past, and Contemporary Conflicts over Land in Mentawai, Indonesia” by Juniator Tulius
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part III
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part III
Cultural History In Focus | “New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific” by Michael Gunn from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific” by Michael Gunn from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “The ‘Informal Portuguese Empire’ and the Topasses in the Solar Archipelago and Timor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “The ‘Informal Portuguese Empire’ and the Topasses in the Solar Archipelago and Timor in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries” by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Royal Hawaiian Featherwork (Na Hulu Ali’i)” by Christina Hellmich from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Royal Hawaiian Featherwork (Na Hulu Ali’i)” by Christina Hellmich from Tribal Art Magazine
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part II
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part II
Cultural History In Focus | “Iban Beaded Costume” by Michael Heppell
Cultural History In Focus | “Iban Beaded Costume” by Michael Heppell
Cultural History In Focus | “The Pig Story (Tibboi Sakkoko): Storytelling of kinship, memories of the past, and rights to plots of ancestral land in Mentawai” by Juniator Tulius
Cultural History In Focus | “The Pig Story (Tibboi Sakkoko): Storytelling of kinship, memories of the past, and rights to plots of ancestral land in Mentawai” by Juniator Tulius
Review of Select Works by Raymond Corbey | “Three Recent Publications about Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography” by Antonio J. Guerreiro
Review of Select Works by Raymond Corbey | “Three Recent Publications about Indonesian Material Culture, Art and Ethnography” by Antonio J. Guerreiro
Cultural History In Focus | “The Art of Micronesia: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery” by Jerome Feldman and Donald H. Rubinstein with Introduction by Leonard Mason
Cultural History In Focus | “The Art of Micronesia: The University of Hawaii Art Gallery” by Jerome Feldman and Donald H. Rubinstein with Introduction by Leonard Mason
“Ambivalent blessings: Headhunting on Siberut (Mentawai) in a comparative Southeast Asian perspective” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
“Ambivalent blessings: Headhunting on Siberut (Mentawai) in a comparative Southeast Asian perspective” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
Cultural History In Focus | “Perspectives on the Gift in Indonesia and Beyond” by Paul Michael Taylor, from “The Gift as Material Culture” (Yale-Smithsonian Reports on Material Culture, No. 4)
Cultural History In Focus | “Perspectives on the Gift in Indonesia and Beyond” by Paul Michael Taylor, from “The Gift as Material Culture” (Yale-Smithsonian Reports on Material Culture, No. 4)
“Looking Deeper: Ceremonial Spoons from Timor (Nura Dikun)” by Steven G. Alpert
“Looking Deeper: Ceremonial Spoons from Timor (Nura Dikun)” by Steven G. Alpert
Cultural History In Focus | “The Other Tiger: History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “The Other Tiger: History, Beliefs, and Rituals in Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “Colour and Anti-Colour in the Death Ritual of the Toraja” by Dr. Reimar Schefold & Dr. Hetty Nooy-Palm
Cultural History In Focus | “Colour and Anti-Colour in the Death Ritual of the Toraja” by Dr. Reimar Schefold & Dr. Hetty Nooy-Palm
Cultural History In Focus | “The Mysterious Ocean: Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures, and Saintly Miracles in Early Modern Southeast Asia and Europe” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “The Mysterious Ocean: Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures, and Saintly Miracles in Early Modern Southeast Asia and Europe” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “The Chinese-Indonesian Collections in the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands” by Francine Brinkgreve & Johanna Leijfeldt
Cultural History In Focus | “The Chinese-Indonesian Collections in the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands” by Francine Brinkgreve & Johanna Leijfeldt
Cultural History In Focus | “Stranded People: Mythical Narratives about the First Inhabitants of Mentawai Islands” by Juniator Tulius
Cultural History In Focus | “Stranded People: Mythical Narratives about the First Inhabitants of Mentawai Islands” by Juniator Tulius
Cultural History In Focus | “The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink” by Karel Weener from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “The Korwar Collection of Henry Blekkink” by Karel Weener from Tribal Art Magazine
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Cultural History In Focus | “Re-Collecting Father Viegen's Asmat Objects” by Karel Weener from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Re-Collecting Father Viegen's Asmat Objects” by Karel Weener from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Gendered Objects: Embodiments of Colonial Collecting in Dutch New Guinea” by Anna-Karina Hermkens
Cultural History In Focus | “Gendered Objects: Embodiments of Colonial Collecting in Dutch New Guinea” by Anna-Karina Hermkens
Cultural History In Focus | “Textiles and Dragon-Snakes: The Vatter Collection in Frankfurt” by Ruth Barnes from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Textiles and Dragon-Snakes: The Vatter Collection in Frankfurt” by Ruth Barnes from Tribal Art Magazine
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part I
Kayanic Art | Aesthetic Traditions of Borneo: Part I
Cultural History In Focus | “Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs” by Roxana Waterson
Cultural History In Focus | “Hornbill, Naga and Cock in Sa'dan and Toraja Woodcarving Motifs” by Roxana Waterson
Cultural History In Focus | “Gold Jewellery in Nias Culture” by Maggie de Moor
Cultural History In Focus | “Gold Jewellery in Nias Culture” by Maggie de Moor
Cultural History In Focus | “Dutch Galleons and South Nias Palaces” by Jerome Feldman
Cultural History In Focus | “Dutch Galleons and South Nias Palaces” by Jerome Feldman
Cultural History In Focus | “Collecting in the Colony: Hybridity, Power, and Prestige in the Netherlands East Indies” by Pieter ter Keurs from Indonesia and the Malay World
Cultural History In Focus | “Collecting in the Colony: Hybridity, Power, and Prestige in the Netherlands East Indies” by Pieter ter Keurs from Indonesia and the Malay World
Cultural History In Focus | “The Great Chief's House at Baruyulasara Pulau Tello, The Batu Islands, Indonesia” by Jerome Feldman
Cultural History In Focus | “The Great Chief's House at Baruyulasara Pulau Tello, The Batu Islands, Indonesia” by Jerome Feldman
Cultural History In Focus | “Art Critics, Connoisseurs, and Collectors in the Southeast Asian Rain Forest: A Study in Cross-Cultural Art Theory” by Stanley J. O'Connor
Cultural History In Focus | “Art Critics, Connoisseurs, and Collectors in the Southeast Asian Rain Forest: A Study in Cross-Cultural Art Theory” by Stanley J. O'Connor
“Shamans in Siberut, Mentawai: Restoring Threatened Harmony” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
“Shamans in Siberut, Mentawai: Restoring Threatened Harmony” by Dr. Reimar Schefold
Cultural History In Focus | “Borneo To Philadelphia: The Furness-Hiller-Harrison Collections” by Adria H. Katz
Cultural History In Focus | “Borneo To Philadelphia: The Furness-Hiller-Harrison Collections” by Adria H. Katz
Cultural History In Focus | “Transgressions in the House of the Chief: Hilimondregeraya Village in South Nias, Indonesia” by Jerome Feldman
Cultural History In Focus | “Transgressions in the House of the Chief: Hilimondregeraya Village in South Nias, Indonesia” by Jerome Feldman
“The Escalating Problem of Faking” by Michael Backman
“The Escalating Problem of Faking” by Michael Backman
Cultural History In Focus | “History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia: Comparative and Longitudinal Views” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “History, Headhunting and Gender in Monsoon Asia: Comparative and Longitudinal Views” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Decorated Mats of the Peoples of the Borneo Hinterland” by Jonathan Fogel and Bernard Sellato from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Decorated Mats of the Peoples of the Borneo Hinterland” by Jonathan Fogel and Bernard Sellato from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tradition of Head-Hunting” by Albert van Zonneveld from ‘Traditional Weapons of Borneo: The Attire of Head-Hunters | Volume I: Shields & War Clothes’
Cultural History In Focus | “The Tradition of Head-Hunting” by Albert van Zonneveld from ‘Traditional Weapons of Borneo: The Attire of Head-Hunters | Volume I: Shields & War Clothes’
Cultural History In Focus | “High Status Markers in Low Relief: Carved Doors and Panels of Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “High Status Markers in Low Relief: Carved Doors and Panels of Borneo” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “From Lukas to Liefkes?: Age and Authenticity of Gold Jewellery from Sumba, Indonesia” by Francine Brinkgreve
Cultural History In Focus | “From Lukas to Liefkes?: Age and Authenticity of Gold Jewellery from Sumba, Indonesia” by Francine Brinkgreve
Cultural History In Focus | “So My Name Shall Live: Stone-Dragging and Grave-Building in Kodi, West Sumba” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | “So My Name Shall Live: Stone-Dragging and Grave-Building in Kodi, West Sumba” by Janet Alison Hoskins
Cultural History In Focus | "The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia" by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | "The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia" by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Cultural History In Focus | “Indonesian Shields” by Steven G. Alpert from “Protection, Power, and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia” | Boston College Museum of Art
Cultural History In Focus | “Indonesian Shields” by Steven G. Alpert from “Protection, Power, and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia” | Boston College Museum of Art
Cultural History In Focus | “Writing So Subtle...” by Michel Thieme from HALI Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “Writing So Subtle...” by Michel Thieme from HALI Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “'Ikat' As Metaphor For 'Iban': Women Artists' Creative, Ritual, and Social Powers in Borneo” by Astri Wright
Cultural History In Focus | “'Ikat' As Metaphor For 'Iban': Women Artists' Creative, Ritual, and Social Powers in Borneo” by Astri Wright
Cultural History In Focus | “A Sumba Spinning Wheel: An Instrument, a Work of Art, and a Lesson in Philosophy” by Georges Breguet
Cultural History In Focus | “A Sumba Spinning Wheel: An Instrument, a Work of Art, and a Lesson in Philosophy” by Georges Breguet
Cultural History In Focus | “Shipshape Societies: Boat Symbolism and Political Systems in Insular Southeast Asia” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “Shipshape Societies: Boat Symbolism and Political Systems in Insular Southeast Asia” by Pierre-Yves Manguin
Cultural History In Focus | “An Early Ivory Spoon with Stylistic Connections to Eastern Indonesia” by Steven G. Alpert from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | “An Early Ivory Spoon with Stylistic Connections to Eastern Indonesia” by Steven G. Alpert from Tribal Art Magazine
Cultural History In Focus | Collezione Brignoni at Museo delle Culture Lugano | “A Serendipitous Find” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | Collezione Brignoni at Museo delle Culture Lugano | “A Serendipitous Find” by Bernard Sellato
Cultural History In Focus | “Enggano” by Pieter J. ter Keurs
Cultural History In Focus | “Enggano” by Pieter J. ter Keurs
Cultural History In Focus | “The Religious Art of the Southeast Moluccas” by Nico de Jonge
Cultural History In Focus | “The Religious Art of the Southeast Moluccas” by Nico de Jonge