The STSI-SOAS Indonesian television project

The Balinese Television Project is a collaborative venture between STSI Denpasar and SOAS, starting in 1990, to record, document, preserve archivally, and transcribe important Balinese cultural television broadcasts for educational and research purposes. The project now has an archive of some 1,500 hours of selected broadcasts, and is supposed to be among the largest archives on non-Western television in the world. Although Indonesia has a very important, active, and rapidly changing television broadcasting network, which is central to its role as a developing Pacific Asian country, the social and cultural implications of television on people's lives have remained largely unstudied. Among the problems is a relative lack of materials and of research on contemporary mass media in Indonesia. Television companies have virtually no archival facilities. So the project began as a pilot scheme in Bali to preserve broadcasts of particular cultural and religious value from destruction, by recording, transcribing, and establishing an archive for the use of both Indonesian and foreign scholars, teachers, and practitioners. The aim was that archive should also form a basis for more extensive research into Indonesian media.     

Recent Books in the Field of Romance Languages and Literatures

Mercedes Agulló y Cobo. La Poesía española en 1961. (Cuadernos Bibliográficos, VII). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Madrid, 1963, Pp. 62.

Frederick B. Arlz. From the Renaissance to Romanticism. Trends in Style in Art, Literature, and Music, 1300–1830. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962, Pp. x, 311.

Theodore Besterman. Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century. Geneva: Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1962. Pp. 263.

Germaine Brée. Gide. Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. Pp. 302.

Lucile Kathryn Delano. Spain, Reality and Legend. Rock Hill, South Carolina: Winthrop College, 1964, Pp. 145. $1.50.

Wallace Fowlie. A Reading of Proust. New York: Doubleday &; Co., 1964. Pp. 307.

Edward Inman Fox. Azorín as a Literatury Critic. New York: Hispanic Institute in the United States, 1962. Pp. 176.

Rinaldo Froldi. Il Teatro valenzano e l'origine della commedia baroca. (Istituto di letteratura Spagnola e ispano-Americana della Università di Pisa). Pisa: Editrice Tecnico-Scientifica, 1962. Pp. 112.

Peter Gay. The Party of Humanity. Essays in the French Enlightenment. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Pp. 290.

Herbert S. Gershman, Kernan B. Whitworth, Jr. Anthology of Critical Prefaces to the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1962. Pp. vii, 233.

J. D. Hubert. Molière and the Comedy of Intellect. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. Pp. xvi, 275.

Willis Knapp Jones, ed. Spanish-American Literature in Translation. New York: Ungar, 1963. Pp. xxi, 469.

Maxim Newmark. Dictionary of Spanish Literature. Paterson, New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams and Company, 1963. Pp. 352.

Muriel Rukeyser, ed. and translator. Selected Poems of Octavio Paz. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1964. Pp. 171.

Nilida Salvador. Revistas argentinas de vanguardia (1920–1930). Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1962. Pp. 109.

Baltasar Samper. Investigación folklórica en México. I. México: Departamento de Bellas Artes, 1962. Pp. 653.

Friedrich Soleürr. Miguel de Unamuno. Dichterphilosoph des tragischen Lebensgefuhls. Bern and München: Francke Verlag, 1962. Pp. 169.

Francis Steegmuller. Apollinaire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1963. Pp. 365.

Phillip A. Wadsworth. Tristan l'Hermite: Poésies, choisies et annotées. Paris: Seghers, 1962. Pp. 150.     

Book reviews

J. J. Ras (ed.). Javanese literature since Independence: an anthology. xi, 442 pp. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkunde, 88.) Guilders 65.

Hans Rhodius and John Darling. Walter Spies and Balinese art. Zutphen: Terra, 1980. 95 pp. Guilders 39. [Obtainable from Uitgeverij Terra, Postbus 188, 7200 AD ZUTPHEN, Netherlands.]

A Teeuw. Modern Indonesian literature. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979. 2 vols. x, 232 pp, 12 plates; x, 292 pp, 8 plates (Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal‐, Land‐ en Volkenkunde. Translation Series, 10.)

Drs. Ibrahim. Kursus bahasa Indonesia. London: Linguaphone Institute, 1978. [vi], 128 pp. — G. Hoff and J. Pride. Indonesian course handbook. London: Linguaphone Institute, 1978. [v], 130 pp. — Anonymous. Indonesian course instructions. London: Linguaphone Institute, 1978. [ii], 5 pp. — 4 cassettes. £85.     

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.]