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Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
Dalam Narasi Kekuasaan di Kekaisaran Eurasia, 1300-1800, Richard van Leeuwen menganalisis representasi dan konstruksi ide kekuasaan dalam teks fiksi dari berbagai genre, terutama yang termasuk dalam lapisan perantara antara sastra populer dan resmi. Analisis ini menunjukkan bagaimana ideologi kekuasaan tersemat dalam imajinasi sastra dan budaya masyarakat, nilai-nilai budaya, dan konseptualisas…
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- 9789004340541
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- online resource ( VIII, 278 Pages)
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- Pemerintah & Kelompok Elite
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- 909.09821 LEE n
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia; Texts, Traditions and Practices…
Memori dan Peringatan di Asia Tengah: Teks, Tradisi, dan Praktik, Abad ke-10 hingga ke-21 adalah kumpulan dari empat belas studi oleh sekelompok sarjana yang aktif di bidang Studi Asia Tengah, menyajikan penelitian baru tentang berbagai aspek warisan budaya yang kaya di Asia Tengah (termasuk Afghanistan). Dengan memetakan dan mengeksplorasi interaksi antara produksi politik, ideologis, sastra, …
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- 9789004540996
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- online resource ( XVIII, 381 Pages)
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- Studi Leiden tentang Islam dan Masyarakat
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- 958.004 PAS m
Writing Tamil Catholicism = Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighte…
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South I…
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- 9789004511620
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- 372 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Philological Encounters Monographs, Volume: 3
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Uma Politics : An Ethnography of Democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 19…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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- '9789004253926
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- 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 260
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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan : Religion, State, and Shintō
eligious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies (shuk
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- 978-90-04-27268-2
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Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long Braudelian sweep of Southeast Asian history. In doing so they seek both to debunk simplistic assumptions about fragile traditions and transformational modernities, and to identify real repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past: clientelisti…
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- 978-90-04-28805-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 300
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Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki. Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, drawing on a large number of Middle Persian, Greek, Arabic, and Classical Persian sources. The Khwadāynāmag is often conceived of as a large book of stories, comp…
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- 978-90-04-27764-9
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- Studies in Persian Cultural History, Volume: 14
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Jesuit Missions in Coastal and South India (1543–1773) : Between Mission an…
Jesuit missions in coastal and South India were among the first foundations of the Society of Jesus in the world. They represented models of apostolic action imitated, debated and reformulated in other parts of the world. This book traces the history of the Jesuit missionary activities in the early modern period and shows how the Jesuits navigated European colonial interests and local conversio…
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- 978-90-04-72739-7
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- x, 134 pp.
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-Nan Culture : Extracted from the Posthu…
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Yéi. These papers, based on older field notes and a research trip through the area, are recapitulated in this volume. Verschueren provides genuine inside information and his data are new and authentic. The four papers in this vol…
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- 978-90-04-28730-3
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- xiii, 107 pp.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 99
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Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean : Selected Essays by Jao Tsung-i on Li…
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully into English, giving a sampling of his diverse insights into literature and its broader significance. Topics range from the religious beliefs underpinning the earliest Chinese…
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- 978-90-04-52356-2
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- xvi, 272 pp.
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- Collected Works of Jao Tsung-i, Volume: 4
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