Anthropology and women in development the Leiden experiment

The following publications of the Research Center Women and Development, Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, State University of Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands, are reviewed:

I De Beij, Ilsa. Van Noot Tot Noodzaak: het belong van karite voor vrouwen in een Gourounsi—dorp in Boven‐Volta. Leiden, 1982, 126 pp., n.p.¹

II Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Eager to Learn: An Anthropological Study of the Needs of Egyptian Village Women; Report of an Experiment. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982, 84 pp. n.p.

III Most van Spijk, Marileen van der. Who Cares For Her Health? An Anthropological Study of Women's Health Care in a Vilage in Upper Egypt. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 99 pp., n.p.

IV Most van Spijk, Marileen van der, Hoda Youssef Fahmy, and Sonja Zimmermann, Remember to be Firm: Life Histories of Three Egyptian Women. Cairo‐Leiden, 1982. 79 pp., n.p.

V Postel, Els and Joke Schrijvers (eds.) A Woman s Mind is Longer than a Kitchen Spoon: Report on Women in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980.146 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VI Risseeuw, Carla. The Wrong End of the Rope: Women Coir Workers in Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1980. 253 pp. + Appendices, n.p.

VII Samarasuriya, Shireen, Who Needs Tourism? Employment for Women in the Holiday‐Industry of Sudugama, Sri Lanka. Colombo‐Leiden, 1982. 85 pp. n.p.     

Van Gulik's The Lore of the Chinese Lute Revisited*

In this article I propose a critical examination of van Gulik's The Lore of the Chinese Lute (LCL) in respect to its bibliographical sources and consequent aesthetic contentions. Despite being arguably the first academic monograph on the ideology of qin and historically a major non-Chinese source for the study of qin in general, the LCL does not represent van Gulik's mature thinking on qin. The LCL is limited by objective circumstances surrounding its writing and flaws in van Gulik's bibliographical engagement. His study of the musicology of Yueji on the basis of inaccurate translation and a neglect of the Neo-Confucian reading of Yueji, his hypothesis of Daoist dominance and Buddhist or Indian influence in the practice of qin with mistaken evidence, his skepticism of the truth of the literati tradition with fundamental bibliographical flaws, all require reconsideration. The current lacuna in the critical investigation of the LCL not only urges contemporary researchers to continue where van Gulik left off, but also calls for new research projects on qin and Chinese literati music in general.     

Review article: A colonial governor in dutch new guinea

Ontglipt Verleden I, Tot 1947: Indisch Bestuursambtenaar in vrede en oorlog. By Jan van Baal. Franeker: T. Wever, 1986. 510pp, glossary. [A Past that Slipped Away Part I, Until 1947: Public Servant in the Indies, in Peace and War. ] Ontglipt Verleden II, Leven in Verandering: 1947–1958. By Jan van Baal. Franeker: Van Wijnen, 1989. 619pp, glossary, appendices, index of persons. [A Past that Slipped Away Part II, Living in a Context of Change: 1947–1958]     

REVIEW

De Kebar 1855–1980. Sociale Structuur en Religie in de Vogelkop van West-Nieuw-Guinea. By Jelle Miedema. Dordrecht/ Cinnaminson: Foris Publications. (Ver-handelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, No.105.) 1984. Pp xx +286.     

REVIEWS

Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion. Essays in honour of Jan van Baal. Edited by W. E. A. van Beek and J. H. Scherer. The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff. 1975. Pp. vi + 303. Price: Dfl. 25.00.     

REVIEWS

Desert People: A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia. By M. J. Meggitt String Figures and How to Make Them, by Caroline Furness Jayne Land Tenure in the Cook Islands. By R. G. Crocombe. Primitive Polynesian Economy. By Raymond Firth. Census of India 1961, Vol. I, Part II-C(ii), Language Tables. A. Mitra Ngaju Religion: The Conception of God among a South Borneo People, by Hans Schärer. A Dictionary of some Tuamotuan Dialects of the Polynesian Language, by J. Frank Stimson, with the collaboration of Donald Stanley Marshall. Festschrift Alfred Bühler. Basler Beiträge zur Geographie und Ethnologie, Ethnologische Reihe Panorama der Volken: Deel I. Volken van Amerika en Oceanië. Ed. by Dr. P. van Ernst. J. J. Romen en Zonen     

A Feminist Literary Cartography of the Canadian North: Women,writing and place in Aritha van Herk's Places Far From Ellesmere

This article examines the idea of North in Aritha van Herk's (1990) Places Far From Ellesmere, a feminist rereading of Anna Karenin that is also an exploration of place—Ellesmere Island—and of gender, identity and belonging. I situate my reading of Ellesmere firstly within feminist literary theory, focusing on the concept of intertextuality and on the implications of the concept, from the perspective of feminist theorists, for the acts of writing and reading. I further contextualise van Herk's work by outlining the growing sensitivity to the complexities of writing Canadian space in Canadian literary criticism. The focus then shifts to Ellesmere, beginning with an investigation of van Herk's representational practices and philosophies, which are organised around a critique of the relationship between writing, gender and power. I argue that van Herk's insistence upon the power of feminist textual rereadings, an insistence that results from her aversion to authority, critically shapes her geographical imaginary, and her understanding of North. By extending the text and thereby the practice of reading to geography, van Herk makes possible a feminist representation or rereading of the North that simultaneously contests the conventions of literature, of place and of gender. Ultimately, I argue that it is van Herk's commitment to investigate the processes of representation in which she is engaged that makes her representation of the North such a valuable text for feminist and literary geographers.     

Book Notes

Said El-Naggar (ed.), Privatization and Structural Adjustment in the Arab Countries. African Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development, Understanding Africa's Food Problems: Social Policy Perspectives. Penny van Esterik, Motherpower and Infant Feeding. Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (eds), Privatisation in Less Developed Countries. Gordon R. Conway and Edward B. Barbier, After the Green Revolution. Sustainable Agriculture for Development.     

Book reviews

A. K. Ogloblin. Madurskiy yazyk i lingvisticheskaya tipologiya. 200 pp. Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Leningradskogo Universiteta, 1986.

Rahmah Bujang. Boria: a form of Malay theatre. xv, 165 pp. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [1987]. (Local History and Memoirs.)

J. van Baal and others. West Irian: a bibliography. [By] J. van Baal, K. W. Galis, and R. M. Koentjaraningrat. xiv, 307 pp. Dordrecht; Cinnaminson: Foris Publications, 1984. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. Bibliographical series, 15.)     

Models and Methods in Development–Induced Displacement (Review Article)

Books reviewed in this article: S. Parasuraman, The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India Michael Cernea, (ed.) Economics of Involuntary Resettlement: Questions and Challenges Michael Cernea and Chris McDowell, (eds) Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees World Commission on Dams, Dams and Development, A New Framework for Decision–Making, Report of the World Commission on Dams Robert Picciotto, Warren van Wicklin and Edward Rice, (eds) Involuntary Resettlement: Comparative Perspectives     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History, Conservation and Display (Ships and Boats of the North: 4.1), OLE CRUMLIN‐PEDERSEN, OLAF OLSEN (Eds) III‐starred Captains—Flinders and Baudin, ANTHONY J. BROWN Facing the Ocean. The Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC‐AD 1500, BARRY CUNLIFFE Archaeology and Seafaring: the Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period (ICHR Monograph 1), HAMINSHU PRABHA RAY The Sea in Antiquity (BAR International Series 899), G. J. OLIVER, R. BROCK, T. J. CORNELL, S. HODKINSON (Eds) Lost Warships: an archaeological tour of war at sea, JAMES P. DELGADO ‘A ship cast away about Alderney’—Investigation of an Elizabethan shipwreck, JASON MONAGHAN and, MENSUN BOUND (Eds) Archeologisch onderzoek in het tracé van Willemsspoortunnel te Rotterdam. Sluizen en schepen in de dam van de Rotte (BOO Rbalans 4, 2 vols), M. van TRIERUM, A. CARMIGGELT, A. J. GUIRAN (Eds) Schutz des Kulturerbes unter Wasser (IKUWA conference 1999 proceedings), CHRISTOPHER BÖRKER et al. (Eds) Construzione navale antica, PIER0 DELL'AMICO The Voyages of the Discovery: the illustrated history of Scott's ship, ANN SAVOURS Chicago Maritime: An Illustrated History, DAVID M. YOUNG Deux siècles de constructions et chantiers navals (milieu XVIIe‐milieu XIXe) Proceedings of 124th Congrès des societés historiques et scientifiques, Nantes 1999), CHRISTIANE VILLAIN‐GANDOSSI (Ed.) Submarine Researches by C. A. Deane (1836), MICHAEL FARDELL & NIGEL PHILLIPS (Eds.), JOHN BEVAN Naval Guns: 500 years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, HANS MEHL Lords of the East—the East India Company and its ships 1600–1874, JEAN SUTTON CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate raider, ANDREW BOWCOCK The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek, BARRY CUNLIFFE Trincomalee— the last of Nelson's frigates, ANDREW LAMBERT Galleons and Galleys (Cassel's History of Warfare Series), JOHN F. GUIIMARTIN Jr.     

Book reviews

C. Skinner (ed. and tr.) Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat perinteh negeri Benggala. vi, 198 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. Bibliotheca Indonesica, 22.)

J. A. de Moor (camp.). Indisch Militair Tijdschrift (1870–1942) a selective and annotated bibliography. [i], xiv, 236 pp. The Hague: Sectie Militaire Geschiedenis van de Landmachtstaf; Leiden: Centre for the History of European Expansion, 1983. (Bijdragen van de Sectie Militaire Geschiedenis No. 15; Intercontinenta, No. 4). Guilders 24.

A. Teeuw and S. O. Robson (ed. and tr.). Kuñjarakarna dharmakathana, Liberation through the law of the Buddha: an Old Javanese poem by Mpu Dusun. With a contribution on the reliefs of Candi Jago by A. J. Bernet Kempers. ix, 230 pp., 24 plates. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1981. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. Bibliotheca Indonesica, 21.) Guilders 90.

W. van der Molen. Javaanse tekstkritiek: een overzicht en een nieuwe benadering geillustreerd aan de Kunjarakarna. ix, 316 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 102.) Guilders 30.

Jan B. Avé and others. West Kalimantan: a bibliography. By Jan B. Avé, Victor T. King, and Joke G. W. de Wit. x, 260 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volken‐kunde. Bibliographical Series, 13.) Guilders 30.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: M. I. Tuqan, Education, Society and Development in Underdeveloped Countries. Centre for the Study of Education in Changing Societies A. Lauterbach: Psychological Challenges to Modernization. D.H. Burger, Sociologisch-economische geschiedenis van Indonesia (The Social- Economic History of Indonesia) James Howe et al: The US and World Development. Agenda for Action 1975. Charles Cooper and Sidney Alexander (eds): Economic Development and Population Growth in the Middle East.     

Book reviews

Pieter van de Velde (ed.). Prehistoric Indonesia: a reader. vii, 404 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1984. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 104.)

B.J. Boland and I. Farjon. Islam in Indonesia: a bibliographical survey 1600–1942, with post‐1945 addenda. xxii, 173 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volken‐kunde. Bibliographical Series, 14.) Guilders 40.

Anthony J. Whitten and others. The ecology of Sumatra. [By] Anthony J. Whitten, Sengli J. Damanik, Jazanul Anwar, Nazaruddin Hisyam. xvii, 583pp., 64 plates. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1984. $20.

Jan Breman. Control of land and labour in colonial Java: a case study of agrarian crisis and reform in the region of Cirebon during the first decades of the 20th century. xii, 159 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1983. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 101.)     

REVIEW

Pre-capitalism and Cosmology. By Jelle Miedema Dordrect: Foris Publications. 1986. Verhandelingen van het KIVTLV 120. Pp. viii + 44. Price: Fl20.     

Book reviews

Jan Bank. Katholieken en de Indonesisohe Bevolutie. 576 pp. + 7 pp. English Summary. Baarn: Amboboeken, C19833. CPublikaties van het Katholiek Documeiitatie Centrum, 11.) Guilders 37.50.

Francois Raillon. Les étudiants indonésiens et l'Ordre Nouveau; pplitique et idéologie du Mahasiswa Indonesia (1966–1974). 351 pp. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1984. (Études Insulindiennes/Archipel, 6.)

Victor T. King. The Maloh of West Kalimantan: an ethnographic study of social inequality and social change among an Indonesian Borneo people. viii, 252pp, 13 plates. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volken‐kunde, 108.)

S. A. Niessen. Motifs of life in Toba Batak texts and textiles, viii, 249pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklik Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 110.)     

Book reviews

Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud and P. Voorhoeve. Handschriften aus Indonesien (Bali, Java, und Sumatra), xi, 71 pp., 6 plates. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 1985. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XXVIII, 2.) DM 64,‐

G. J Knapp, Kruidnagelen en christenen: de Verenigde Oost‐Indische Compagnie en de bevolking van Ambon 1656–1696.xii, 323 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1987. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land ‐en Volkenkunde, 125.) Guilders 35.

Rainer Carle (ed.). Cultures and societies North Sumatra. 514 pp. Berlin; Hamburg: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1987. (Veröffentlichungen des Seminars für Indonesische und Südseesprachen der Universität Hamburg, 19.) DM 95.

J. Noorduyn. Bima en Sumbawa: bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de sultanaten Bima en Sumbawa door A. Ligtvoet en G. P. Rouffaer.xii, 187 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1987. (Verhandelingen van net Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 129.) Guilders 30.

Anthony J. Whitten and others. The ecology of Sulawesi. By Anthony J. Whitten, Muslimin Mustafa, Gregory S. Henderson,xxi, 777 pp. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1987.

Robert Wessing. The soul of ambiguity: the tiger in Southeast Asia. vi, 148 pp. [Dekalb, Illinois]: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, 1986. (Monograph Series on Southeast Asia, Special Report 24.) (Distributed by Cellar Bookshop, 18090 Wyoming, Detroit, Michigan 48221.)     

Book reviews

Victoria M. Clara van Groenendael. The dalang behind the wayang: the role of the Surakarta and the Jogyakarta dalang in Indonesian‐Javanese society, xi, 242 pp. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1985. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde, 114.) Guilders 30.

Michael Roger Dove. Swidden agriculture in Indonesia: the subsistence strategies of the Kalimantan Kantu’. xx, 515 pp. Berlin, etc: Mouton Publishers, [1985]. (New Babylon: Studies in the Social Sciences, 43.)

Peter Carey. Maritime Southeast Asian studies in the United Kingdom: a survey of their post‐war development and current resources, vii, 115 pp. Oxford: JASO, 1986. (JASO Occasional Papers, 6.) £5.50. [Cbtainable from Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 51 Barbury Road, Oxford 0X2 6PF.]     

Anthropology and statistics?

van Vark, G. N. and W. W. Howells, eds. Multivariate Statistical Methods in Physical Anthropology. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1984. x 4‐ 433 pp. including illustrations, references, and subject index. $61.00 cloth.

De Meur, Gisele, ed. New Trends in Mathematical Anthropology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986. xx + 315 pp. including illustrations and references. $39.95 cloth.