Cultural History In Focus | “The Mysterious Ocean: Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures, and Saintly Miracles in Early Modern Southeast Asia and Europe” by Barbara Watson Andaya

 

Pinisi Bugis | Buginese Schooner
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 
 

The Mysterious Ocean

 
 

Underwater Kingdoms, Sea Creatures, and Saintly Miracles in Early Modern Southeast Asia and Europe

by Barbara Watson Andaya

 
 

This article is generously provided by Barbara Watson Andaya, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, and ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute.

 

Ceremonial Banner Cloth | Palepai
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 

Ceremonial Cloth | Tampan
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ceremonial Cloth | Tampan
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 

Ceremonial Cloth | Tampan
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ceremonial Banner Cloth | Palepai
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 

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

Wayang Kulit | Shadow Puppet | Before 1816
© The British Museum

Wayang Kulit | Shadow Puppet | Before 1816
© The British Museum

Batik Kapal Kandas | Madmil of Trusmi/Cirebon | North Java
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

Ancestral Shrine Figure | Lamiaha
© Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum | Germany

 
 
 

Solor
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 
 

Solor
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 
 

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 | Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Working Paper Series No. 31, ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute
Date of Publication | May 2019