Jakarta-Batavia : socio-cultural essays / edited by Kees Grijns and Peter J.M. Nas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grijns, C. D.

Nas, P.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 187.

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jakarta (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Jakarta (Indonesia).

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vi, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : KITLV, 2000.

Summary:

This book combines the work of 21 authors from East and West, some of whom are residents of Jakarta and all of whom have studied there. The subjects they deal with range from conditions in VOC Batavia to particular national or ethnic communities to administrative developments. Consideration is also given to demography and urban morphology, environmental problems, traffic, floods, and ritual. Essays discuss the colonial period, recent history, and the present, drawing comparisons between the periods. Contributors include scholars in history, physics, geography, archeology, anthropology, language, sociology, and psychology. The book is distributed in the US by The Book Bin-Pacifica. c. Book News Inc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9067181390

OCLC:

46594278