Cultural History In Focus | "The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia" by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia
by Leonard Yuzon Andaya
This article is generously provided by Leonard Yuzon Andaya.
Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Leonard Y. Andaya is a professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Hawaiii at Manoa in Honolulu. He has held a research fellowship at the Australian National University and has taught at the University of Malaya, Auckland University, and the National University of Singapore (NUS). At the last institution he was appointed the Tan Chin Tuan Professor in Malay Studies from 2011-2012 and the Inaugural Yusof Ishak Professorship in the Social Sciences from 2017-2018. He has written extensively on the early modern history of Southeast Asia, particularly on Indonesia and Malaysia.
His most recent books are Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008); A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015); and a revised third edition of A History of Malaysia (London: Palgrave, 2017). The last two books were written jointly with Barbara Watson Andaya, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. His current research focuses on the complex network of relationships in eastern Indonesia that helped bind together the disparate cultural communities into a functioning unity in the early modern period.
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Author | Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Publication | Bijdragen Tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde
Issue | 172 — 2016 — 66-89
Publication Website | www.brill.com