Illuminations: The Writing Traditions of Indonesia

Rp550.000

By Ann Kumar and John H. McGlynn (Author)

With its fifteen chapters and more than 380 full-color illustrations, this book offers the first comprehensive look at Indonesia’s writing traditions. Illuminations discusses in detail not only the physical materials of Indonesian manuscripts but the literary forms that the manuscripts recorded and preserved: religious and philosophical works, manuscripts of magic and divination, literature, poetry, drama, history and legal treatises. It is a publishing milestone, recording many rare and precious manuscripts and preserving them for posterity.
Hardcover, full colour, jacket: xxii + 298 (320) pages
ISBN: 0-8348-0349-6

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About the Author

Ann Kumar and John H. McGlynn have collected contributions from some of the world’s most foremost authorities on Indonesian writing traditions, including Mastini Hardjoprakoso, Thomas M. Hunter Jr., Supomo Suryohudoyo, A.H. Johns, Henri Chambert-Loir, Ian Proudfoot, Virginia Hooker, Mark Durie, Annabel Teh Gallop, Edi S. Ekadjati, Raechelle Rubinstein, Th. C. van der Meij, T.E. Behrend, Bernard Arps, Roger Tol, Uli Kozok, and Alan Feinstein.

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Dimensions 24 × 32 cm

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