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Lost times and untold tales from the Malay world / edited by Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody.
LIBRA DS523.4.M35 L67 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning and scholarship--Malay Archipelago.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Learning and scholarship--Malay Peninsula.
- Learning and scholarship--Southeast Asia.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Malay Archipelago.
- Islamic learning and scholarship.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Malay Peninsula.
- Islamic learning and scholarship--Southeast Asia.
- Malays (Asian people)--Malay Archipelago--Intellectual life.
- Malays (Asian people).
- Malays (Asian people)--Malay Peninsula--Intellectual life.
- Malays (Asian people)--Southeast Asia--Intellectual life.
- Tales--Malay Archipelago.
- Tales.
- Tales--Malay Peninsula.
- Tales--Southeast Asia.
- Intellectual life.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 396 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why were colonial officials secret pill poppers? Did bicycles really promote Women's Lib? Who went looking for love in all the wrong places? What do you do at the Get-Rich-Quick Tree? The answers to these and many other questions are found in the witty, useful, informative, amusing and sometimes amazing stories that make up this collection.
- Inspired by the wry yet deeply scholarly perspective of Australian philologist lan proudfoot, the editors of Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World bring together a distinguished group of International scholars who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theater, art, Islamic manuscripts, erotic literature, and many other topics from wholly unexpected angles. The book demonstrates the spectacular diversity of scholarship on the Malay World, and shows that offbeat texts can produce fascinating new insights into the past. Book jacket.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789971694548
- 9971694549
- OCLC:
- 298671103
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