Maestro tari Sardono W Kusuma hampir ucul nyawanya ditabrak mobil jeep, imbas dari pementasan Samgita tahun 1971 di Solo. Dianggap merusak pakem, orang Jawa “garis keras” melabrak lelaki yang kelak menjadi guru besar IKJ tanpa ijazah sarjana tersebut. Empu karawitan gaya Surakarta, Mlayawidada saban pagi mengelilingi separuh kutha sambil mulutnya ndremimil menghapal ratusan gending. Buahnya…
Usaha menduniakan sastra Indonesia yang sedang digalakkan mau tidak mau mensyaratkan satu hal penting, yakni pengetahuan tentang pengarang itu sendiri, yang mencakup jejak proses kreatif, pengembangan diri pengarang, dan karya yang dihasilkan. Buku ini mencoba menelusuri jejak pengarang sejak masa pres muncul, 1880 hingga 1980. Tujuh pengarang yang menghasilkan karya dalam kurun waktu satu abad…
Many people know the stories behind the tulip mania in the 17th century and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history and culture should be passed on to future generations? A Key to Dutch History and its resulting overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-p…
Tourists are travelling the world in greater numbers than ever before, seeking immersive cultural experiences. This massive rise of tourism has raised issues of social and cultural sustainability in the world’s global cities. At the same time, smaller cities and rural communities struggling with increasing urbanization and the loss of traditional industries could benefit from increased touris…
An Equal Burden forms the first scholarly study of the Army Medical Services in the First World War to focus on the roles and experiences of the men of the ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). These men, through their work as stretcher bearers and orderlies, provided a range of labour, both physical and emotional, in aid of the sick and wounded. They were not professional medical careg…
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the…
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023 With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese book donation to the University of Leuven/Louvain constitutes an invaluable time capsule of Japan’s pre-modern culture in all its diversity and richness. A century on, th…
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activi…
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, theoretical eclecticism, the centrality of field research, and the ability to 'dream big,' but with a commonsense approach to the record and its limitations." Lawrence Guy Straus…