The Textile Industry in Southeast Asia, 1400-1800

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Hall
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
New Order ◽  
Textile Trade ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Point Of Reference

AbstractThis study of Southeast Asia's regional and native textile trade highlights the transitional patterns of textile use in sixteenth and seventeenth century Banjarmasin, an important Borneo coast port-polity in that era's international pepper trade. Cloth was a multi-purpose commodity bearing rich indigenous legacy that served as the point of reference for revised political, economic, and cultural transactions. In the new order that was emerging, upstream and downstream regularized their interactions and shared in a common cultural bond that was defined by cloth. This was a locally meaningful response to the changing economic circumstances of the seventeenth century, and was only in part a reaction to an increasingly assertive European presence in the eastern Indonesian archipelago.

The blessings and perils of female rule: New perspectives on the reigning queens of Patani, c. 1584–1718

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Amirell
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
World History ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
Female Rule ◽  
Political Economic

Only in a handful of cases in world history has female rule been seen by contemporary observers as desirable and been sustained for long periods of time. Drawing on European, Malay and Chinese sources, this article investigates the reasons for the institutionalisation of female rule in the Malay sultanate of Patani (presently in southern Thailand) for most of the period between c. 1584 and 1711. It is concluded that the results of previous research, in which the Patani queens are characterised as powerless front figures and/or promiscuous, have insufficient support in the contemporary sources. Furthermore, the problems of female rule for dynastic stability are discussed comparatively. Finally, the decline of female rule in Patani after the mid-seventeenth century is explained with reference to the larger political, economic and military changes in maritime Southeast Asia at the time.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2008 ◽  
Vol 163 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 376-453
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
New Order ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Marie Antoinette

Chris Ballard, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke, Tracy Harwood (eds); The sweet potato in Oceania; A reappraisal (Peter Boomgaard) Caroline Hughes; The political economy of Cambodia’s transition, 1991-2001 (Han Ten Brummelhuis) Richard Robison, Vedi Hadiz; Reorganising power in Indonesia; The politics of oligarchy in an age of markets (Marleen Dieleman) Michael W. Charney; Southeast Asian warfare, 1300-1900 (Hans Hägerdal) Daniel Perret, Amara Srisuchat, Sombun Thanasuk (eds); Études sur l´histoire du sultanat de Patani (Mary Somers Heidhues) Joel Robbins; Becoming sinners; Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society (Menno Hekker) Mujiburrahman; Feeling threatened; Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia’s New Order (Gerry van Klinken) Marie-Odette Scalliet; De Collectie-Galestin in de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek (Dick van der Meij) James Neil Sneddon; Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (Don van Minde) James Leach; Creative land; Place and procreation on the Rai coast of Papua New Guinea (Dianne van Oosterhout) Stanley J. Ulijaszek (ed.); Population, reproduction and fertility in Melanesia (Dianne van Oosterhout) Angela Hobart; Healing performances of Bali; Between darkness and light (Nathan Porath) Leo Suryadinata (ed.); Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia (Roderich Ptak) Ruth Barnes; Ostindonesien im 20. Jahrhundert; Auf den Spuren der Sammlung Ernst Vatter (Reimar Schefold) Marie-Antoinette Willemsen; Een missionarisleven in brieven; Willem van Bekkum, Indië 1936-1998 (Karel Steenbrink) Marie-Antoinette Willemsen; Een pionier op Flores; Jilis Verheijen (1908-1997), missionaris en onderzoeker (Karel Steenbrink) Akitoshi Shimizu, Jan van Bremen (eds); Wartime Japanese anthropology in Asia and the Pacific (Fridus Steijlen) Lilie Roosman; Phonetic experiments on the word and sentence prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak (Uri Tadmor) Jamie D. Saul; The Naga of Burma; Their festivals, customs, and way of life (Nicholas Tapp) K.S. Nathan, Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds); Islam in Southeast Asia; Political, social and strategic challenges for the 21st century (Bryan S. Turner) Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson, Robin Hide (eds); Papuan pasts; Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples (Lourens de Vries) Leo Howe, The changing world of Bali; Religion, society and tourism (Carol Warren) Sarah Weiss; Listening to an earlier Java; Aesthetics, gender, and the music of wayang in Central Java (Andrew N. Weintraub) REVIEW ESSAY Terry Crowley: Four grammars of Malakula languages Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu) Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Tape: a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu) (Alexandre Francois) REVIEW ESSAY -- ‘The folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us’: the end of nature in Southeast Asia? Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, Amity A. Doolittle (eds); Conserving nature in culture; Case studies from Southeast Asia Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells; Nature and nation; Forests and development in peninsular Malaysia Celia Lowe; Wild profusion; Biodiversity conservation in an Indonesian archipelago John F. McCarthy; The fourth circle; A political ecology of Sumatra’s rainforest frontier Budy P. Resosudarmo (ed.); The politics and economics of Indonesia’s natural resources Jeffrey R. Vincent, Rozali Mohamed Ali; Managing natural wealth; Environment and development in Malaysia (David Henley) In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde no. 163 (2007), no: 2/3, Leiden

Contesting Modes of Colonialism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Cultural Effects ◽  
Spanish Colonization ◽  
Trading Network

The Spanish entrance to Island Southeast Asia in the sixteenth century had profoundimpacts on native peoples and terrain, but followed a millennia of intrusion into the region by Indian (Hindu), Buddhist, Chinese, Muslim, and native traders who established entrepôts in the Indonesian Archipelago from Malaka to Java to the Moluccas Islands. This trading network extended from Venice to Guangzhou. The southern Philippines lay at the edge, but participated in the trade of cloves, nutmeg, pepper, and other spices and forest products, first through Majapahit and later through Chinese traders. A consulary visit to China from Butuan was recorded in the eleventh century in the Chinese Song Shih, and a Cham trade mission was reported in 1001. Nine plank-hulled boats dating from the eleventh century were found buried in flood deposits in the Agusan del Sur River in Butuan, Mindanao, and, along with Song Dynasty ceramic artifacts, demonstrate the trade’s global reach . A century before Spanish colonization, Muslim pilots and traders initiated the spread of Islam. This has made an imprint on the region. Islamic conversion contrasted with Christian colonial patterns of subjugation and led to persistent boundaries and enduring, localized, and cultural effects that continue to shape ethnic and political divisions.

The Making of a Success Story

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Kingdom Of Naples ◽  
High Ranking Official ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter introduces the main protagonist of the book: Carlo Calà Duke of Diano, a jurist and high-ranking official in the viceregal administration. This chapter also sets the historical context of the story of the forgery by describing the main political, economic, social, and religious characteristics of the Kingdom of Naples in the seventeenth century. More specifically, this chapter explains the social, cultural, and intellectual advantages that a noble pedigree conferred to the Neapolitan non-aristocratic elites; explores the main sources of tension between the papacy and the Neapolitan viceroy; sheds light on the power dynamics between the Roman Inquisition and the local ecclesiastical leaders; and introduces the complexities of the liturgical and devotional life of early modern Catholics.

Dissent in New England

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-266
Author(s):  
Francis J. Bremer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
New Order ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Anne Hutchinson ◽  
Religious Establishment ◽  
New England Colonies ◽  
Roger Williams ◽  
The Church

The New England colonies were settled in the early seventeenth century by men and women who could not in conscience subscribe to all aspects of the faith and practice of the Church of England. In creating new societies they struggled with how to define their churches and their relationship with the national Church they dissented from. As their New England Way evolved the orthodox leaders of the new order identified and took action against those who challenged it. Interaction with dissenters such as Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Baptists, and Quakers helped to further define the colonial religious establishment.

scholarly journals The East Timorese in Sydney

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terri McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Nearest Neighbour ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Western Half

A boy befriended a sick crocodile and carried it to the sea. In gratitude, the crocodile took the boy on many journeys across the sea. As it grew old and approached death, the crocodile said: 'I will change into a land where you and your descendants will live from my fruits, as payment for your kindness.' According to legend, the land was the island of Timor and the descendants were the Timorese.East Timor is the world's newest democracy and Australia's nearest neighbour. The first president of the independent nation in May 2002 was the former resistance leader Xanana Gusmâo who married Australian activist Kirsty Sword in 2000. He became the country's fourth Prime Minister on 8 August 2007.Timor, meaning 'east' in Indonesian, is a narrow mountainous island at the south-eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago. Half the island was colonised by the Portuguese in the seventeenth century and remained so when the western, formerly Dutch, half joined the newly independent Indonesian republic in 1945. East Timor is now called Timor-Leste in Portuguese and Timor Loro Sa'e in Tetum, the two official languages. The East Timorese are culturally and linguistically distinct from Bahasa-speaking Indonesians in the western half of the island.

Living with difference in rural Indonesia: What can be learned for national and regional political agendas?

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Carnegie
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
New Order ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Social Mixing ◽  
Communal Relations ◽  
Mixed Communities

Much research has sought to understand why mixed communities in Indonesia have been torn apart by violent conflict. By contrast, little is known about how people live together successfully in the mixed, low-conflict communities that exist in abundance throughout the Indonesian archipelago. This paper explores the inter-communal relations in the multiethnic, Christian-Muslim coastal village of Oelua in Roti, Nusa Tenggara Timur province. Mechanisms of agreement across ethnic, religious and livelihood differences have shaped and reproduced a low-conflict community — including transfers of land, labour, technology and surplus; use of customary law and conflict management; and social mixing and interpersonal relations. The findings suggest that there are lessons to be learned from communities like Oelua about how to foster social and economic inclusion, which could inform national and regional political agendas concerned with governing difference in a post-New Order Indonesia.

scholarly journals Slaves and Slave Trade in the Timor Area: Between Indigenous Structures and External Impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Hans Hägerdal
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Local Systems ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
External Impact

Abstract This study rethinks the patterns of slave-holding and slave trade that can be discerned in small-scale societies in the Timor region of the Indonesian archipelago, especially Timor, the Solor and Alor Islands, Rote, and Savu. It studies how European powers—the Dutch and the Portuguese—influenced the trade in enslaved human beings and how this was balanced by slaving conducted by Asian forces. The study is based in large part on archival sources from the VOC period, together with published Portuguese sources. Data on these issues provides some basis for comparisons with other, better documented cases of slavery and slaving in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. This contributes to an understanding of how local systems of slavery interacted with the transregional systems represented by external groups.

scholarly journals Chops and Trademarks: Asian Trading Ports and Textile Branding, 1840–1920

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas P. Zangger
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Textile Trade ◽  
Cultural Encounter

This article is a contribution to the prehistory of modern branding, presenting a case study of the textile trade in colonial Southeast Asia. The visual appearance of brands as well as their social meaning were altered in the cultural encounter of colonial trade. Through these encounters, trademarks were modernized: the reputation of a producer became less important than the distinctiveness of the product.

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