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[...]the 'age of commerce' marked the apogee of Southeast Asian independence and cultural vitality. The Dutch monopoly was a partial monopoly meant to protect the spice islands, not to wipe out all other commerce. [...]if Dutch and Chinese trade is included, there was an enormous incrase i...

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Published inBijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde Vol. 153; no. 3; p. 439
Main Authors Nugroho-Heins, Indro, Brakel-Papenhuyzen, Clara, Sluimers, László, Sato, Shigeru, Steenbrink, Karel, Holtrop, P N, Timmer, Jaap, Biersack, Aletta, Boomgaard, Peter, Dobbin, Christine, Brown, Ian, Hicks, George, Fukuda Shozo, Cohen, Matthew I
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden Koninklijke Brill NV 01.07.1997
Subjects
Asian studies
Business
Capitalism
Children
Chinese languages
Confucianism
Diaspora
Dutch language
Entrepreneurs
Familiarity
Families & family life
Gender relations
Interpersonal relations
Literature
Metaphor
Minority & ethnic groups
Parents & parenting
Politics
Stereotypes
Strathern, Marilyn
Success
Syntactic structures
Weber, Max (1864-1920)
New York
Southeast Asia
Singapore
Myanmar (Burma)
United States > US
Philippines
East Africa
India
Indonesia
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Summary:[...]the 'age of commerce' marked the apogee of Southeast Asian independence and cultural vitality. The Dutch monopoly was a partial monopoly meant to protect the spice islands, not to wipe out all other commerce. [...]if Dutch and Chinese trade is included, there was an enormous incrase in the total amount of maritime trade between 1600 and 1775 (Knaap 1996:168). [...]the Ambonese population around 1700 produced two or three times the world demand for cloves. Yet it does not take too great a familiarity with the anthropological and historical literature to know that the widespread use of kinship metaphors in Indonesian social and political life is much older than this, and that there has probably never been a time when families in Indonesia were not thoroughly political institutions. [...]the stereotyped nuclear 'Indo- Book Reviews 459 nesian family' - parents and their children in their own house - which Shiraishi dismisses as a 'vacuous syntactical structure' (p. 164) constructed by New Order educationalists, actually bears a suspicious resemblance to the household type which all available field studies reveal as the traditional norm in rural Java.
ISSN:0006-2294
2213-4379