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Lost Time and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Jan Van Der Putten
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Description for Lost Time and Untold Tales from the Malay World
Paperback. Offers a look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theatre, art, Islamic manuscripts, erotic literature, and many other topics from unexpected angles. This book demonstrates the diversity of scholarship on the Malay World, and shows that offbeat texts can produce fascinating new insights into the past. Editor(s): Putten, Jan Van Der; Cody, Mary Kilcline. Num Pages: 428 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FMM; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 590.
How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why were colonial officials secret pill poppers? Did bicycles really promote Women's Lib? Who went looking for love in all the wrong places? What do you do at the Get-Rich-Quick Tree? The answers to these and many other questions are found in the witty, useful, informative, amusing and sometimes amazing stories that make up this collection. Inspired by the wry yet deeply scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, the editors ... Read more
How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why were colonial officials secret pill poppers? Did bicycles really promote Women's Lib? Who went looking for love in all the wrong places? What do you do at the Get-Rich-Quick Tree? The answers to these and many other questions are found in the witty, useful, informative, amusing and sometimes amazing stories that make up this collection. Inspired by the wry yet deeply scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, the editors ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
428
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694548
SKU
V9789971694548
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jan Van Der Putten
Jan van der Putten is Assistant Professor at the Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. Mary Kilcline Cody is completing her history dissertation Tropical Gothic: The Proudlock Murder Trial, British Malaya, 1911, at the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
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