Despite rich Islamic artistic traditions, people tend to portray Islam as hostile to visual culture. Yet images often inform the ways in which Muslims negotiate religious authority. Practices of image-making in Indonesia and Malaysia illustrate this...

Are we talking ‘Revolution’ or ‘Decolonization’? Where can these perspectives meet? The Universitas Gadjah Mada’s Department of History in Yogyakarta hosted a two-day workshop to discuss these questions. Gert Oostindie notes his personal impressions....

Now available online: the latest New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 91, issue 3-4. The NWIG is a scholarly fully open access journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art,...

Now available online: the latest Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 173, issue 4, special issue: New Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java. BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open...