Cultural History In Focus | “Distant Drums and Thunderous Cannon: Sounding Authority in Traditional Malay Society” by Barbara Watson Andaya

 

Shadow puppet of battle scene, 'Prampogan'. | Java
As1859,1228.606
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
 

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.

 

Kettle gong | North Vietnam
83624
© Weltmuseum Wien

Kettle gong | North Vietnam
66671
© Weltmuseum Wien

Drum | Sumatra
As1926,0413.16
© The Trustees of the British Museum

Hourglass-shaped drum made of bronze | Moko | Alor
TM-77-15
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Captured Ordnance | Lantaka
NG-MC-1103
© Rijksmuseum

Captured Ordnance, Laurens Oxsen
NG-MC-1104
© Rijksmuseum

Captured Ordnance | Lantaka
NG-MC-1071
© Rijksmuseum

Drum | Maluku
29647
© Weltmuseum Wien

Drum | Kepitung | Java
As1859,1228.210
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
 

Portrait of a man with drum during the performance of the Tambar dance | Tanimbar, Maluku | 1924-1932
RV-A440-tt-186-203A
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Heilig Kanon, 'Si Jagur', Batavia | Java | 1920-1935
G.F.J. Bley | TM-60006945
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

Heilig Kanon, 'Ki Amuk', Bantam | Java | 1915-1926
G.F.J. Bley | TM-ALB-0329-8
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen

 

Melaka under the leadership of Cornelis Matelief the Younger, 1606
Jan Luyken, 1683
RP-P-1896-A-19368-399
© Rijksmuseum

 

Ambonese and Javanese parades and a Malay wedding
Wouter Schouten, c. 1664
RP-T-1964-364-7(V)
© Rijksmuseum

 
 

Barbara Watson Andaya

 
 
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

 
 
The Flaming Womb Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia Barbara Watson Andaya
A History of Malaysia Barbara Watson Andaya Leonard Yuzon Andaya
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400-1830 Barbara Watson Andaya Leonard Yuzon Andaya

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Author | Barbara Watson Andaya
Publication | International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2
Date of Publication | July 2011