About KITLV Press

KITLV Press is a not-for-profit academic publisher. KITLV Press specializes in scholarly monographs and other books on the anthropology, art, economics, history, and literature of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on Indonesia, and the Caribbean. KITLV Press stands for high-quality books prepared with meticulous editorial care and expertise.

KITLV Press is committed to Open Access publishing; many of our most recent scholarly monographs are available through www.oapen.org, which only lists peer reviewed books.

KITLV Press publishes the longest-running anthropological and linguistic journal in the world (since 1851), Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania and the oldest journal on the Caribbean: the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. Both the BKI and NWIG are available free of charge through Open Access editions through the KITLV website. The press’s most recent journal is Oso, Tijdschrift voor Suriname en het Caraïbisch gebied.

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KITLV Press is proud to be part of APSEA (Academic Publishers on Southeast Asia). KITLV Press publications are also distributed by agents in the USA, Indonesia, Australia and Singapore.

KITLV Press welcomes submissions from prospective authors. Please see our instructions and guidelines for authors of monographs, and guidelines for submitting articles to the editors of our journals on this website.