Cultural History In Focus | "The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia" by Leonard Yuzon Andaya

 

Naga Panel | Alor
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 

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.


 

Ivory Charm | Kai Islands
© Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

Moko Bronze Kettle Drum | Alor
© Dallas Museum of Art | Texas, USA

Carved Ivory Figure
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Pair of Ivory Bracelets | Sumba
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

Naga Figure | Alor
© Yale University Art Gallery | Connecticut, USA

Ivory Amulet
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Naga Figure | Alor Regency
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ivory Comb | Yamdena Island
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 

Group Portrait | Eastern Flores
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Chieftain with Elephant Tusk | Tanimbar Islands
© Petrus Drabbe

Group Scene | Tanimbar Islands
© Petrus Drabbe | Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Man with an Elephant Tusk | Tanimbar Islands
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Girl from Yamdena Island
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 

Leonard Yuzon Andaya

Courtesy of Subject

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