Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya
Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon
Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society
by Barbara Watson Andaya
This article is generously provided by Barbara Watson Andaya and the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies.
Barbara Watson Andaya
Barbara Watson Andaya is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i. Between 2003 and 2010 she was Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and President of the American Association of Asian Studies in 2005-06. In 2000 she received a John Simon Guggenheim Award, and in 2010 she received the University of Hawai‘i Regents Medal for Excellence in Research. Her specific area of expertise is the western Malay-Indonesia archipelago, on which she has published widely, but she maintains an active teaching and research interest across all Southeast Asia.
Her publications include Perak, The Abode of Grace: A Study of an Eighteenth Century Malay State (1979), To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1993); The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia (2006). Her most recent books, in collaboration with Leonard Y. Andaya, are A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia (2015), and a third edition of A History of Malaysia (2016). She is working on a book on gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia and another on religious interaction in Southeast Asia
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Author | Barbara Watson Andaya
Publication | International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2
Date of Publication | July 2011