Book Reviews

Author(s):  
J.G. Oosten ◽  
Peter Fuchs ◽  
J.P. Boendermaker ◽  
Björn Björnsson ◽  
H.C.G. Schoenmaker ◽  
...  

- J.G. Oosten, Peter Fuchs, Kult und Autorität: de Religion der Hadjerai. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1970. 395 S., 12 Karten, 38 Abb., 52 Photos. - J.P. Boendermaker, Björn Björnsson, The Lutheran doctrine of marriage in modern Icelandic society. Oslo, Reykjavik 1971. 250 p. - H.C.G. Schoenmaker, J. van Baal, Symbols for communication. An introduction to the anthropological study of religion. Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V. Assen, 1971. I-XII, 295 p. - Miriam de Beet-Sterman, Jean Hurault, Africains de Guyane. La vie matérielle et l’art des Noirs Réfugiés de Guyana. Mouton, La Haye-Paris 1970. 224 pp., 47 foto’s en illustraties. - Stephen Wild, Alan Lomax, Folk song style and culture. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., 1968. xix, 308 pp., 3 appendices, bibliog., illus., maps. - Aidan Southall, A.H.J. Prins, Didemic Lamu: Social stratification and spatial structure in a Muslim maritime town. Instituut voor Culturele Antropologie der Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1971. 68 pp., 4 diag., 4 figs., Map. - H.J.M. Claessen, Irving Goldman, Ancient Polynesian society. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London 1970. 625 pp., bibl., appendices, register. - J. van Baal, Paula Brown, The Chimbu: A study of change in the New Guinea Highlands. Schenkman Publishing Cy, Inc., Cambridge, Massachussets 1972, 151 + IX pp. - P. van de Velde, J. Peter White, Ol Tumbana - Archaeological excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Terra Australis 2. Department of Pre-History, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, 1972. xx + 176 pp., 170 tables, 28 figs., 5 plates. - Ajatrohaedi, Tom Harrison, Gold and megalithic activity in prehistoric and recent West Borneo. New York, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies. Cornell University, Data Paper number 77, 1970. XIV and 331 pp., map, ills., Stanley J. O’Connor (eds.) - David S. Moyer, James A. Tuck, Onondaga Iroquois Prehistory. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1971. xiii, 255 p. - Jeremy Boissevain, José Cutileiro, A Portugese rural society. The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971. xi, 314 p., 10 plates, figs.

Author(s):  
Leonard Y. Andaya ◽  
J. Noorduyn ◽  
Ben Arps ◽  
Philip Yampolsky ◽  
Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael ◽  
...  

- Leonard Y. Andaya, J. Noorduyn, Bima en Sumbawa; Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de Sultanaten Bima en Sumbawa door A. Ligtvoet en G.P. Rouffaer, Dordrecht-Holland/Providence-U.S.A.: Foris publications, ix, 187 pp, maps, indexes. - Ben Arps, Philip Yampolsky, Lokananta; A discography of the national recording company of Indonesia 1957-1985, Madison, Wisconsin: Center for Southeast Asian studies, University of Wisconsin, Bibliographical series No. 10, 1987. XIII + 433 pp. - Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael, Ward Keeler, Javanese shadow plays, Javanese selves, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. xvii + 282 pages. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, glossary, index. - Jean Gelman Taylor, Leonard Blussé, Strange company. Chinese settlers. Mestizo women and the Dutch in VOC Batavia. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Dordrecht: Foris publications, 1986. - V.J.H. Houben, R.B. van de Weijer, Tussen traditie en wetenschap; Geschiedbeoefening in niet-westerse culturen, Nijmegen 1987., P.G.B. Thissen, R. Schönberger (eds.) - V.J.H. Houben, J. van Goor, Indië/Indonesië; Van kolonie tot natie, HES, Utrecht 1987. - F.G.P. Jaquet, Th. van den End, Gereformeerde zending op Sumba (1859-1972), een bronenpublicatie, bewerkt door Th. van den End. Alphen aan den Rijn: Aska, 1987. XIV, 743 pp. Uitgave van de Raad voor de Zending der Nederlands Hervormde Kerk, de Zending der Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland en de Gereformeerde Zendingsbond in de Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk. - R.E. Jordaan, Roland Werner, Bomoh/Dukun; The practices and philosophies of the traditional Malay healer, Berne; Institute of Ethnology (Studia ethnologica Bernensia 3), 1986. 106 pp., illustrations and photographs. - P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Werner Kraus, Zwischen reform und rebellion: Über die Entwicklung des Islams in Minangkabau (Westsumatra) zwischen den beiden Reformsbewegungen der Padri (1837) und der Modernisten (1908), Beiträge zur Südasien-Forschung, Südasien-Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Band 8S, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. 236 pp. - Wolfgang Marschall, Pietro Scarduelli, L’isola degli antenati di pietra; Strutture sociali e simboliche dei Nias dell’Indonesia, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1986. IX + 232 pp., 22 pl., 28 figs. - Nigel Phillips, C. Skinner, The battle for Junk Ceylon; The syair Sultan Maulana, Dordrecht: Foris, 1985. viii + 325 pp. - Harry A. Poeze, Mavis Rose, Indonesia free; A political biography of Mohammad Hatta. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, viii + 245 pp. - D.J. Prentice, Elisabeth Tooker, Naming systems: The 1980 proceedings of the American Ethnological society, The American Ethnological society, 1984. vii + 107 pp., Harold C. Conklin (eds.) - Patricia D. Rueb, Christine Dobbin, Islamic revivalism in a changing peasant economy; Central Sumatra, 1784-1847, London/Malmö; Scandinavian Institute of Asian studies, Monograph series no. 47, 1987, 300 pages, illustrated. - P.C. Verton, Ank Klomp, Politics on Bonaire; An anthropological study. Assen/Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1986.' [Translated by Dirk H. van der Elst] - Leontine E. Visser, Elisabeth Traube, Cosmology and social life; Ritual exchange among the Mambai of East Timor, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. xxiii + 298 pp., figs., photos, index.


Author(s):  
D. Horst ◽  
Albert Herrmann ◽  
A.F.P. Hulsewé ◽  
F.S. Drake ◽  
D.R. Jonker ◽  
...  

- D. van der Horst, Albert Herrmann, An historical atlas of China. New edition by Norton Ginsburg. Djambatan N.V., Amsterdam 1966. 88 pp. - A.F.P. Hulsewé, F.S. Drake, Symposium of historical, archaeological and linguistic studies on Southern China, South-East Asia and the Hongkong region. Proceedings of a meeting held in September 1961 as part of the Golden Jubilee Congress of the University of Hongkong. Hongkong, Hongkong University Press, 1967. X + 370 pp. - D.R. Jonker, Liu Shih-Shun, One hundred and one Chinese poems. With English translations and preface. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, Chinese Series; Hong Kong University Press, 1967. XXXIX + 173 pp. - M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, A. Das Gupta, Malabar in Asian trade 1740-1800. Cambridge South Asian Studies. Cambridge U.P. 1967. XII, 204 blz. Met krt. - C.R. Hooijer, Per Sorensen, Ban-Kao, Neolithic settlements with cemeteries in the Kanchanaburi Province. 140 pp., 140 plates, 4 maps, figs. The Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition 1960-62, Archaeological Excavations in Thailand, Vol. II. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1967. - C.R. Hooijer, H.R. van Heekeren, Sai-Yok, Stone-age settlements in the Kanchanaburi Province. 129 pp., 33 plates, 47 figs. The Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition 1960-1962, Archaeological Excavations in Thailand, Vol. I. Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1967., Eigil Knuth (eds.) - Th. G. Th. Pigeaud, C. Hooykaas, Bagus Umbara, Prince of Koripan. The story of a prince of Bali and a princess of Java, illustrated on palm leaves by a Balines artist. With Balinese text and English translation by Dr C. Hooykaas, Reader in Old Javanese, University of London. Published by the Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1968. 55 pp., 9 illustrations, 31 x 25 cm. - H.J. de Graaf, Soemarsaid Moertono, State and statecraft in old Java: A study of the late Mataram period 16th to 19th century. Monograph series Modern Indonesia Project. Southeast Asia Program Department of Asian Studies. Cornell University Ithaca New York 1968. - M.A.P. Meilink-Roelofsz, John Bastin, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. With an account of the Raffles-Minto manuscript collection presented to the India Office Library on 17 July 1969 by the Malaysia-Singapore Commercial Association. The Ocean Steamship Company Limited, Liverpool 1969. 33 pp. - C. Fasseur, W.F. Wertheim, Ketters en kwezels. Regenten en rebellen. Laverman N.V., Drachten, 1968. 212 blz., A.H. Wertheim-Gijse Weenink (eds.) - S. Kooijman, Tropical Man. Continuation of International Archives of Ethnography. Yearbook of the Anthropology Department of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Vol. 2; Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1968. Vol. I: 247 pp.


Author(s):  
Anne Booth ◽  
W.L. Korthals Altes ◽  
Wim Doel ◽  
Robert Cribb ◽  
C.D. Grijns ◽  
...  

- Anne Booth, W.L. Korthals Altes, Changing economy in Indonesia, Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute (General trade statistics, 1822-1949; volume 12a). - Wim van den Doel, Robert Cribb, Historical dictionary of Indonesia. Metuchen, N.J., & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1992. - C.D. Grijns, Kingsley Bolton, Sociolinguistics today; International perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 383 pp., Helen Kwok (eds.) - David Henley, Ole Bruun, Asian perceptions of nature: Papers presented at a Workshop, NIAS, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 1991. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian studies (Nordic Proceedings in Asian studies No. 3), 1992, 261 pp., Arne Kalland (eds.) - Ward Keeler, Jonathon Falla, True love and Bartholomew: Rebels on the Burmese border. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. - Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Mary F. Somers Heidhues, Bangka tin and mentok pepper; Chinese settlement on an Indonesian island. Singapore: Institute of South-east Asian studies, 1992, 296 pp. - Marie Alexandrine Martin, Christin Kocher Schmid, Of people and plants. A botanical ethnography of Nokopo village, Madang and Morobe provinces, Papua New Guinea. Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität und Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel, 1991, 336 pp. - J. Noorduyn, Bernhard Dahm, Regions and regional developments in the Malay-Indonesian world: 6 European Colloquium on Indonesian and Malay studies (ECIMS) June 1987 Passau. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz, 1992, x + 221 pp., maps. - J. Noorduyn, J.N. Sneddon, Studies in Sulawesi Linguistics, Part II, NUSA, Linguistic studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, volume 33. Jakarta: Baden Penyelenggara Seri Nusa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. 1991, x + 115 pp., maps. - Anton Ploeg, Richard Michael Bourke, Taim hangre: Variation in subsistence food supply in the Papua New Guinea highlands, Unpublished PhD thesis, submitted in the department of human geography, The Australian National University, RSPacS, Canberra, 1988, xxiii + 370 pp., maps, tables, figures, appendices. - Anton Ploeg, Maureen A. MacKenzie, Androgenous objects: String bags and gender in central New Guinea. Chur, Switzerland, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991, xv + 256 pp., maps, figures, bibliography, index. - Nico G. Schulte Nordholt, Jeremy Kemp, Peasants and cities; Cities and peasants; Rethinking Southeast Asian models, Overveen, ACASEA, 1990, 126 pp. - Rudiger Schumacher, Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, The Bedhaya court dances of central Java, Leiden/New York/Köln: Brill, 1992, xvi + 349 pp. - Corry M.I. van der Sluys, Carol Laderman, Taming the wind of desire; Psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic performance. University of California Press, 1991, 382 pp. - J.H.F. Sollewijn Gelpke, Geoffrey Irwin, The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992, viii + 240 pp. - R.G. Tol, Burhan Magenda, East Kalimantan; The decline of a commercial aristocracy. Ithaca, Cornell University (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Monograph Series (publication no. 70)), 1991, viii + 113 pp., maps.


2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Carlson

It is no secret, unhappily, that the study of theatre in the colleges and universities of this country is a discipline under siege, but the severity of the problems received strong confirmation in New York State this fall when two of the most distinguished and long-established (over a century in both cases) programs in the country were, with little warning, faced with draconian cuts or outright extinction. The fact that one, the state University of Albany, was the flagship school of the public system, and the other, Cornell University, was one of the state's most distinguished private institutions, suggests the scope and impact of these actions. At Albany, four other programs are being terminated along with theatre—Classics, Russian, Spanish, and French—while at Cornell the extent of the severe cuts imposed on the theatre program—almost a quarter of the total budget of the department (which also shelters dance and film)—are being suffered by no other program in the university. The prominence of these two schools in a state that has long claimed a central position in American theatre makes them particularly significant symbolically of a discipline in crisis, and this has impelled me to engage in serious and sometimes painful reflections on that discipline, the basis of the present essay.


Author(s):  
Douglass Taber

Chaozhong Li of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry demonstrated (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 4037) facile and selective Cu-catalyzed β-lactam formation, converting 1 to 2. Paul Helquist of the University of Notre Dame devised (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 3903) an effective catalyst for intramolecular alkyne hydroamination, converting 3 into the imine 4. Six-membered ring construction worked well also. Jon T. Njardarson of Cornell University found (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 5023) a Cu catalyst for the rearrangement of alkenyl aziridines such as 5 to the pyrroline 6. Philippe Karoyan of the UPMC, Paris developed (J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 6706) an interesting chiral auxiliary directed cascade process, converting the simple precursor 7 into the complex pyrrolidine 9. Sherry R. Chemler of the State University of New York, Buffalo devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 17638) a chiral Cu catalyst for the cyclization of 10, to give 12 with substantial enantiocontrol. Wei Wang of the University of New Mexico demonstrated (Chem. Commun. 2008, 5636) the organocatalyzed condensation of 13 and 14 to give 16 with high enantio- and diastereocontrol. Two complementary routes to azepines/azepinones have appeared. F. Dean Toste of the University of California, Berkeley showed (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9244) that a gold complex catalyzed the condensation of 17 and 18 to give 19. Frederick G. West of the University of Alberta found (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 3985) that lactams such as 20 could be ring-expanded by the addition of the propiolate anion 21. Takeo Kawabata of Kyoto University extended (Organic Lett . 2008, 10, 3883) “memory of chirality” studies to the cyclization of 23, demonstrating that 24 was formed in high ee. Paul V. Murphy of University College Dublin took advantage (Organic Lett . 2008, 10, 3777) of the well-known intramolecular addition of azides to alkenes, showing that the intermediate could be intercepted with nucleophiles such as thiophenol, to give the cyclized product 26 with high diastereocontrol.


2019 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald

Artist/scientist Erin Espelie was trained at Cornell University as a biologist, but turned down opportunities to study biology at the graduate level at Harvard and MIT in order to explore the New York City theater scene, before finding her way into independent, “avant-garde” filmmaking, first exploring her interests in biology and the history of science in a series of short films, then producing the remarkable essay-film The Lanthanide Series (2014), which explores the importance of the “rare earths” (the elements with atomic numbers 57–71) for modern communication and informational technologies. The imagery for The Lanthanide Series was recorded, almost entirely, off the reflective surface of an iPad. In her work as a moving-image artist, Espelie combines poetry, science, environmental politics, and modern digital technologies within videos that defy traditional knowledge categories. She is currently editor in chief for Natural History magazine and a director of the NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder.


Author(s):  
Gerard J. Broek ◽  
G. Varro ◽  
M. Haddad ◽  
Nels Johnson ◽  
A. Ruijter ◽  
...  

- Gerard J. van den Broek, G. Varro, Orients, pour Georges Condominas. R. Hamayon, J. Matras-Troubetzkoy, J. Pouillon, L, Puiseux, Ch. Taillard, Toulouse, Editions Privat & Paris, Sudestasie, 1981, 345 pp., B. Condominas (eds.) - M. Haddad, Nels Johnson, Islam and the politics of meaning in Palestinian nationalism, London: Kegan Paul International, 1982. - A. de Ruijter, Mary Douglas, In the active voice, London, Boston and Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982, xi + 306 pp. - Peter Kloos, Paul Henley, The Panare. Tradition and change on the Amazonian frontier. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982, 263 pp. - Peter Kloos, Conrad Phillip Kottak, Assault on Paradise. Social change in a Brazilian village. New York: Random House, 1983, 314 pp. - W.A. Shadid, M. van der Most van Spijk, Remember to be firm. Life histories of three Egyptian women, Women and development series, Cairo/Leiden 1982. 79 pp., H.Y. Fahmy, S. Zimmerman (eds.) - W.A. Shadid, Marileen van der Most van Spijk, Eager to learn. An anthropological study of the needs of Egyptian village women; report of an experiment, Women and development series, Cairo/Leiden 1982. 84 pp. - W.A. Shadid, Marileen van der Most van Spijk, Who cares for her health? An anthropological study of women’s health care in a village in Upper Egypt, Women and development series, Cairo/Leiden 1982. 99 pp. - Willem van Schendel, Marvin Davis, Rank and rivalry: The politics of inequality in rural West Bengal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. - Simon Kooijman, Jerry W. Leach, The Kula, New perspectives on Massim exchange. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney, 1983., Edmund Leach (eds.) - Simon Kooijman, Martha Macintyre, The Kula. A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney, 1983. - H. Dagmar, C.G. von Brandenstein, Names and substance of the Australian subsection system, The University of Chicago Press, N.Y. [1983?] - David S. Moyer, A. Testart, Des classiciations dualistes en Australie: Essai sur l’évolution de l’organisation sociale. Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Publications de l’université de Lille III, Lille 1978. - Kwame Arhim, Michel Verdon, The Abutia Ewe of West Africa, a chiefdom that never was: 316 pp., II appendices, 74 tables, Mouton publishers, 1983. - J.F. Holleman, Sally Falk Moore, Law as process - an anthropological approach, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, etc., 1983 (256 pp., bibliography, index).


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