In the African context, shrines are cultural signposts that help one understand and read the ethnic, territorial, and social lay of the land. The contributions gathered here by Allan Charles Dawson demonstrate how African shrines help to define ethnic boundaries, shape group identity, and symbolically articulate a society's connection with the land it occupies. Shrines are physical manifestatio…
Disasters are characterized by severe disruptions of the society’s functionality and adverse impacts on humans, the environment, and economy that cannot be coped with by society using its own resources. This work presents a decision support method that identifies appropriate measures for protecting the public in the course of a nuclear accident. The method particularly considers the issue of …
Babad ini merupakan koleksi Museum Sonobudoyo yang belum terkatalogisasi oleh Tim Behrend pada tahun 1990. Berdasarkan penelusuran katalog, kisah pengasingan Sultan Hamengku Buwono II di Ambon tidak banyak diceritakan. Fakta-fakta yang ada di selingkung babad ini sangat menarik untuk diungkapkan sebagai wujud memori kolektif dari perjalanan Yogyakarta menjadi Daerah Istimewa. Melalui upaya alih…
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses…
Whose History? aims to illustrate how historical novels and their related genres may be used as an engaging teacher/learning strategy for student teachers in pre-service teacher education courses. It does not argue all teaching of History curriculum in pre-service units should be based on the use of historical novels as a stimulus, nor does it argue for a particular percentage of the use of his…
Buku Bedugul dari Angkasa menyajikan tampilan citra satelit kawasan dataran tinggi Bedugul dari Pulau Bali yang dilengkapi dengan foto on-ground serta narasi semi-ilmiahnya. Selain itu, buku ini juga dilengkapi dengan uraian singkat mengenai pengindraan jauh dan sistem informasi geografi serta informasi menarik dari aspek etnografi seputar sejarah kampung Candikuning sebagai cikal bakal kawasa…
This special issue presents discussions of the role and meaning of religion for Korean society. Covering wide-ranging time periods, the authors explores with their own cases four major characteristics of Korean religion: Creativity, Greater Responsiveness, Adaptability, and Prophethood. Their topical religious traditions include Neo-Confucianism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Korean new religious…
The project reported on in this monograph has been concerned with the archaeology of the Batanes Islands, an archipelago that must have been settled quite early in the process of Austronesian dispersal from Taiwan southwards into the Philippines. A multi-phase archaeological sequence covering the past 4000 years for the islands of Itbayat, Batan, Sabtang and Siayan is presented, extending from …
Fokus penelitian ini adalah mengenai studi iklim masa lampau dengan menggunakan arsip karang Scleractinia atau disebut juga karang batu dari genus Porites. Kombinasi karang hidup dan mati menyediakan data iklim secara kontinu dari masa kini ke ribuan tahun bahkan ratusan ribu tahun lampau dengan resolusi bulanan. Kandungan geokimia karang dapat digunakan untuk merekonstruksi suhu permukaan laut…
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation…