Helen Creese
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 642007 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen Creese |
| NOMBRES | Helen |
| APELLIDO | Creese |
| FIRMA | CREESE H |
| AFILIACIONES | 1. [email protected] |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7497-3196 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Indic Ornaments on Javanese Shores
The Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin, the earliest known Javanese literary work, is based on the sixth-century Sanskrit Bhaṭṭikāvya. It is an outcome of a careful and thorough project of translation and adaptation that took place at a formative moment in the cultural exchange between South and Southeast Asia. In this essay we explore what it was that the Javanese poets set out to capture when they rendered the Bhaṭṭikāvya into Old Javanese, what sor…
Acts of citizenship? rulers and ruled in traditional Bali
Recent understandings of indigenous leadership and governance have reframed earlier dualistic depictions of precolonial Balinese governance in terms of despotic kingship on the one hand and autonomous village society on the other. This article draws on indigenous literary, legal and political texts in conversation with contemporaneous nineteenth-century Western depictions of the island to re-examine notions of premodern Balinese citizenship. Poli…
Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century
In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series …
The stigmatisation of widows and divorcees ( janda ) in Indonesian society
This special issue is devoted to the study of janda (widows and divorcees) in Indonesia and the stigma that they experience. The single word janda refers to both widows and divorcees in Indonesian
The legal status of widows and divorcees ( janda ) in colonial Bali
This article explores the legal status of widows and divorced women (janda) in Bali during the transition to Dutch colonial rule at the turn of the 20th century. It examines the Balinese law codes and their application in adat (traditional) courts to consider the ways in which widows and divorcees were able to claim recognition of their economic and social rights. At that time, the Dutch established the adat law system that provided separate civi…
Negotiating cultural constraints
This article discusses the strategies deployed by widows and divorcees (janda) in negotiating cultural constraints and social stigmatisation in contemporary Bali. In Balinese patriarchal society, women are disadvantaged in terms of their access to employment and commonly earn less than men. When a marriage ends, Balinese widows and divorcees not only lose their partners but also an important source of family income. Janda may need to take on addi…
More Than Just ‘Numpang Nampang’
The singing and interpretation of religious and literary texts (makidung) has historically been a male dominated activity in Bali. In the last decade, however, since makidung programmes on radio and television have become popular, the participation of women in makidung activity has been substantial, with the number of female participants surpassing that of men. In this article, which forms part of a broader wide-ranging study of contemporary text…
From La?k? Eastwards; The R?m?ya?a in the Literature
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs of the majestic Central Javanese temples to modern pup…
Judicial processes and legal authority in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi - a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese - the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right co…
Old Javanese legal traditions in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi-a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese-the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right conduc…
Curious Modernities
The engagement of Balinese writers and intellectuals with the modern world began well before the final incorporation of the island into the Dutch colonial state in 1906-8. This essay analyzes three Balinese texts, each belonging to a different traditional Balinese literary genre, that were written around the beginning of the twentieth century. These texts, which deal with world events and geography, are Balinese reworkings of material from printe…
Women of the Kakawin World
In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in this poetry form include war, love, and marriage. …
Erotic Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bali
Two nineteenth-century Balinese genres in which the erotic predominates are epic kakawin poetry and tutur (religious manuals) on sexual yoga. The article points to the strong intertextual links between these diverse genres. Through their focus on practical sexual matters and on the pursuit of sexual pleasure as integral to spiritual growth, tutur and kakawin also offer insight into notions of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Bali
Old Javanese studies; A review of the field
For nearly two hundred years the academic study of the languages and literatures of ancient Java has attracted the attention of scholars. Interest in Old Javanese had its genesis in the Orientalist traditions of early nineteenth-century European scholarship. Until the end of the colonial period, the study of Old Javanese was dominated by Dutch scholars whose main interest was philology. Not surprisingly, the number of researchers working in this …
Ultimate loyalties. The self-immolation of women in Java and Bali
On hearing the news of ?alya's death, Satyawati sets out to join him, firm in the knowledge that 'her life began to end the moment she fell asleep the night before', when ?alya slipped from her bed and left her, and although she 'still had a body [...] it was just like a casket, for her spirit had gone when the king went into battle' (Bh?ratayuddha 42.4). Accompanied by her maid, Sugandhik?, she wanders the battlefield, slip ping in its 'river of…
The Balinese kakawin tradition; A preliminary description and inventory
Bali has a vast and rich literature that dates back many centuries but which remains largely unknown outside Bali. Many different genres are represent ed in the Balinese literary corpus, ranging from prose and poetic works written in Kawi - a name that encompasses a number of related idioms including Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and Javanese-Balinese - to works in literary Balinese and modern novels, short stories and poetry written in Balinese …
Parthayana
Arjuna stories in kakawin literature
Publications briefly noted
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper. EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia…
New Kingdoms, Old Concerns
The years 1750–1870 encompass a period of significant change in Bali, a time when interaction with Europeans, in particular the Dutch, became crucial, and cultural and political transformations occurred as colonialism, even though largely at a distance, was consolidated throughout the archipelago. This period, however, does not encapsulate Bali’s ‘last stand’. The Balinese political crisis that had seen the centralized realm of Gelgel replaced wi…
Pieces In The Puzzle
Creese Helen. Pieces In The Puzzle : The Dating of Several Kakawin from Bali and Lombok. In: Archipel, volume 52, 1996. pp. 143-171
Chronologies and chronograms; An interim response to Hägerdal
Hans H?gerdal's article on the chronology of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel (1995) is a welcome contribution to recent attempts to describe this elusive period of Balinese history. In this article, H?gerdal takes issue with my own conclusions concerning the chronology of this period (Creese 1991a). It is neither possible for me to do justice to H?gerdal's detective work among the Dutch archival sources, nor to deal with his arguments point by poi…
Sri Surawirya, Dewa Agung of Klungkung (c. 1722-1736); The historical context for dating the Kakawin Parthayana
It is customary for Old Javanese kakawin poets to invoke the name of the royal patron to whom they dedicate theirwork in either the introductory or closing stanzas of their poems. From the names of these patrons, some of whom are also known from the inscriptions, it has been possible to establish a rough chronological framework for the kakawin works composed in Java from approximately the ninth to the sixteenth centuries (Zoetmulder 1974). In the…
Balinese babad as historical sources; A reinterpretation of the fall of Gèlgèl
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the centralized Balinese kingdom of G?lg?l, which according to Balinese tradition had held sway since the fourteenth century, was overthrown. It was gradually replaced in the course of the eighteenth century by a number of smaller, independent kingdoms. This period of Balinese history, which saw the end of the old political order and the beginning of a new one, has received little attention from scholar…
Balinese babad as historical sources; A reinterpretation of the fall of Gèlgèl
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the centralized Balinese kingdom of G?lg?l, which according to Balinese tradition had held sway since the fourteenth century, was overthrown. It was gradually replaced in the course of the eighteenth century by a number of smaller, independent kingdoms. This period of Balinese history, which saw the end of the old political order and the beginning of a new one, has received little attention from scholar…
Judicial processes and legal authority in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi - a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese - the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right co…
The Balinese kakawin tradition; A preliminary description and inventory
Bali has a vast and rich literature that dates back many centuries but which remains largely unknown outside Bali. Many different genres are represent ed in the Balinese literary corpus, ranging from prose and poetic works written in Kawi - a name that encompasses a number of related idioms including Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and Javanese-Balinese - to works in literary Balinese and modern novels, short stories and poetry written in Balinese …
Old Javanese legal traditions in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi-a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese-the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right conduc…
Erotic Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bali
Two nineteenth-century Balinese genres in which the erotic predominates are epic kakawin poetry and tutur (religious manuals) on sexual yoga. The article points to the strong intertextual links between these diverse genres. Through their focus on practical sexual matters and on the pursuit of sexual pleasure as integral to spiritual growth, tutur and kakawin also offer insight into notions of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Bali
Acts of citizenship? rulers and ruled in traditional Bali
Recent understandings of indigenous leadership and governance have reframed earlier dualistic depictions of precolonial Balinese governance in terms of despotic kingship on the one hand and autonomous village society on the other. This article draws on indigenous literary, legal and political texts in conversation with contemporaneous nineteenth-century Western depictions of the island to re-examine notions of premodern Balinese citizenship. Poli…
Curious Modernities
The engagement of Balinese writers and intellectuals with the modern world began well before the final incorporation of the island into the Dutch colonial state in 1906-8. This essay analyzes three Balinese texts, each belonging to a different traditional Balinese literary genre, that were written around the beginning of the twentieth century. These texts, which deal with world events and geography, are Balinese reworkings of material from printe…
Ultimate loyalties. The self-immolation of women in Java and Bali
On hearing the news of ?alya's death, Satyawati sets out to join him, firm in the knowledge that 'her life began to end the moment she fell asleep the night before', when ?alya slipped from her bed and left her, and although she 'still had a body [...] it was just like a casket, for her spirit had gone when the king went into battle' (Bh?ratayuddha 42.4). Accompanied by her maid, Sugandhik?, she wanders the battlefield, slip ping in its 'river of…
Pieces In The Puzzle
Creese Helen. Pieces In The Puzzle : The Dating of Several Kakawin from Bali and Lombok. In: Archipel, volume 52, 1996. pp. 143-171
Chronologies and chronograms; An interim response to Hägerdal
Hans H?gerdal's article on the chronology of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel (1995) is a welcome contribution to recent attempts to describe this elusive period of Balinese history. In this article, H?gerdal takes issue with my own conclusions concerning the chronology of this period (Creese 1991a). It is neither possible for me to do justice to H?gerdal's detective work among the Dutch archival sources, nor to deal with his arguments point by poi…
Sri Surawirya, Dewa Agung of Klungkung (c. 1722-1736); The historical context for dating the Kakawin Parthayana
It is customary for Old Javanese kakawin poets to invoke the name of the royal patron to whom they dedicate theirwork in either the introductory or closing stanzas of their poems. From the names of these patrons, some of whom are also known from the inscriptions, it has been possible to establish a rough chronological framework for the kakawin works composed in Java from approximately the ninth to the sixteenth centuries (Zoetmulder 1974). In the…
Sri Surawirya, Dewa Agung of Klungkung (c. 1722-1736); The historical context for dating the Kakawin Parthayana
It is customary for Old Javanese kakawin poets to invoke the name of the royal patron to whom they dedicate theirwork in either the introductory or closing stanzas of their poems. From the names of these patrons, some of whom are also known from the inscriptions, it has been possible to establish a rough chronological framework for the kakawin works composed in Java from approximately the ninth to the sixteenth centuries (Zoetmulder 1974). In the…
Balinese babad as historical sources; A reinterpretation of the fall of Gèlgèl
Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the centralized Balinese kingdom of G?lg?l, which according to Balinese tradition had held sway since the fourteenth century, was overthrown. It was gradually replaced in the course of the eighteenth century by a number of smaller, independent kingdoms. This period of Balinese history, which saw the end of the old political order and the beginning of a new one, has received little attention from scholar…
Chronologies and chronograms; An interim response to Hägerdal
Hans H?gerdal's article on the chronology of the Balinese kingdom of Gelgel (1995) is a welcome contribution to recent attempts to describe this elusive period of Balinese history. In this article, H?gerdal takes issue with my own conclusions concerning the chronology of this period (Creese 1991a). It is neither possible for me to do justice to H?gerdal's detective work among the Dutch archival sources, nor to deal with his arguments point by poi…
Pieces In The Puzzle
Creese Helen. Pieces In The Puzzle : The Dating of Several Kakawin from Bali and Lombok. In: Archipel, volume 52, 1996. pp. 143-171
New Kingdoms, Old Concerns
The years 1750–1870 encompass a period of significant change in Bali, a time when interaction with Europeans, in particular the Dutch, became crucial, and cultural and political transformations occurred as colonialism, even though largely at a distance, was consolidated throughout the archipelago. This period, however, does not encapsulate Bali’s ‘last stand’. The Balinese political crisis that had seen the centralized realm of Gelgel replaced wi…
Parthayana
Arjuna stories in kakawin literature
Publications briefly noted
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (QUEENSLAND BRANCH) and CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA‐;ASIA RELATIONS. Australia and the Asia‐Pacific Challenge: Queensland Business in Asia. Brisbane: Griffith University, Australia‐Asia Papers no. 77, 1996. 24 pp. A$10.00, paper. EDMUND S.K. FUNG and CHEN JIE. The Attitudes of the PRC Chinese Towards Australia and China, 1989–1996. Brisbane: Griffith University, Centre for the Study of Australia…
The Balinese kakawin tradition; A preliminary description and inventory
Bali has a vast and rich literature that dates back many centuries but which remains largely unknown outside Bali. Many different genres are represent ed in the Balinese literary corpus, ranging from prose and poetic works written in Kawi - a name that encompasses a number of related idioms including Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and Javanese-Balinese - to works in literary Balinese and modern novels, short stories and poetry written in Balinese …
Old Javanese studies; A review of the field
For nearly two hundred years the academic study of the languages and literatures of ancient Java has attracted the attention of scholars. Interest in Old Javanese had its genesis in the Orientalist traditions of early nineteenth-century European scholarship. Until the end of the colonial period, the study of Old Javanese was dominated by Dutch scholars whose main interest was philology. Not surprisingly, the number of researchers working in this …
Ultimate loyalties. The self-immolation of women in Java and Bali
On hearing the news of ?alya's death, Satyawati sets out to join him, firm in the knowledge that 'her life began to end the moment she fell asleep the night before', when ?alya slipped from her bed and left her, and although she 'still had a body [...] it was just like a casket, for her spirit had gone when the king went into battle' (Bh?ratayuddha 42.4). Accompanied by her maid, Sugandhik?, she wanders the battlefield, slip ping in its 'river of…
Erotic Literature in Nineteenth-Century Bali
Two nineteenth-century Balinese genres in which the erotic predominates are epic kakawin poetry and tutur (religious manuals) on sexual yoga. The article points to the strong intertextual links between these diverse genres. Through their focus on practical sexual matters and on the pursuit of sexual pleasure as integral to spiritual growth, tutur and kakawin also offer insight into notions of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century Bali
Women of the Kakawin World
In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For more than a millennium, the poets of the Indic courts of Java and Bali composed epic kakawin poems in which they recreated the court environment where they and their royal patrons lived. Major themes in this poetry form include war, love, and marriage. …
Curious Modernities
The engagement of Balinese writers and intellectuals with the modern world began well before the final incorporation of the island into the Dutch colonial state in 1906-8. This essay analyzes three Balinese texts, each belonging to a different traditional Balinese literary genre, that were written around the beginning of the twentieth century. These texts, which deal with world events and geography, are Balinese reworkings of material from printe…
Judicial processes and legal authority in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi - a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese - the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right co…
Old Javanese legal traditions in pre-colonial Bali
Law codes with their origins in Indic-influenced Old Javanese systems of knowledge comprise an important genre in the Balinese textual record. Written in Kawi-a term encompassing Old Javanese, Middle Javanese and High Balinese-the legal corpus forms a complex and overlapping web of indigenous legal texts and traditions that encompass the codification and administration of civil and criminal justice as well as concepts of morality and right conduc…
From La?k? Eastwards; The R?m?ya?a in the Literature
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through the centuries in the Archipelago, inspiring many forms of artistic expression not only in the domain of literature but also in the visual and performing arts, from the reliefs of the majestic Central Javanese temples to modern pup…
More Than Just ‘Numpang Nampang’
The singing and interpretation of religious and literary texts (makidung) has historically been a male dominated activity in Bali. In the last decade, however, since makidung programmes on radio and television have become popular, the participation of women in makidung activity has been substantial, with the number of female participants surpassing that of men. In this article, which forms part of a broader wide-ranging study of contemporary text…
Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century
In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series …
The stigmatisation of widows and divorcees ( janda ) in Indonesian society
This special issue is devoted to the study of janda (widows and divorcees) in Indonesia and the stigma that they experience. The single word janda refers to both widows and divorcees in Indonesian
The legal status of widows and divorcees ( janda ) in colonial Bali
This article explores the legal status of widows and divorced women (janda) in Bali during the transition to Dutch colonial rule at the turn of the 20th century. It examines the Balinese law codes and their application in adat (traditional) courts to consider the ways in which widows and divorcees were able to claim recognition of their economic and social rights. At that time, the Dutch established the adat law system that provided separate civi…
Negotiating cultural constraints
This article discusses the strategies deployed by widows and divorcees (janda) in negotiating cultural constraints and social stigmatisation in contemporary Bali. In Balinese patriarchal society, women are disadvantaged in terms of their access to employment and commonly earn less than men. When a marriage ends, Balinese widows and divorcees not only lose their partners but also an important source of family income. Janda may need to take on addi…
Acts of citizenship? rulers and ruled in traditional Bali
Recent understandings of indigenous leadership and governance have reframed earlier dualistic depictions of precolonial Balinese governance in terms of despotic kingship on the one hand and autonomous village society on the other. This article draws on indigenous literary, legal and political texts in conversation with contemporaneous nineteenth-century Western depictions of the island to re-examine notions of premodern Balinese citizenship. Poli…
Indic Ornaments on Javanese Shores
The Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin, the earliest known Javanese literary work, is based on the sixth-century Sanskrit Bhaṭṭikāvya. It is an outcome of a careful and thorough project of translation and adaptation that took place at a formative moment in the cultural exchange between South and Southeast Asia. In this essay we explore what it was that the Javanese poets set out to capture when they rendered the Bhaṭṭikāvya into Old Javanese, what sor…
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