Mapping the Acehnese past / edited by R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly and Anthony Reid.



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Most of the papers in the book were originally presented at the International Conference of Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Banda Aceh, 24-27 February 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes texts in Malay with English and Dutch translations, and one text translated from Arabic.

Title
Mapping the Acehnese past / edited by R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly and Anthony Reid.
Artist
Feener, R. Michael.
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Book
Abstract
Summary: Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters - the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on a more positive and neglected claim Aceh has on our attention, as the South east Asian maritime state that most successfully and creatively maintained its independent pace in the world until 1874. Like Burma, Siam and Vietnam, all better protected by geography, Aceh has its own story to tell of a unique culture struggling for suvival through the European colonial era.
Year
2011
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