Leonard Y Andaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 558399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonard Y Andaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonard Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Andaya |
| SIGNATURE | ANDAYA L Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Flights of fancy
The aim of this essay is to show through just one greatly valued trade item — in this case, the bird of paradise — how even the most distant and apparently isolated areas of the world could be linked to the major metropoles through trade. Yet this trade was anything but a simple bilateral exchange. It involved a complex series of networks that extended from the collectors to various levels of intermediaries and secondary ports, and then to foreig…
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Ethnicity in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Southeast Asia
The continuing intermingling and exchange of biological and cultural elements among groups make arguments for distinctive ethnicities scientifi cally indefensible. Nevertheless, individuals and communities have displayed a persistent desire to underscore difference and to defi ne and redefi ne themselves in order to promote their individual or group interests. History is rife with examples of ethno-nations and nation-states successfully appealing…
Massoi and Kain Timur in the Birdshead Peninsula of New Guinea, the Easternmost Corner of the Indian Ocean World
The notion of an "Indian Ocean world" continues to be debated and redefined among scholars since Alan Villiers helped initiate the concept in his 1952 study, The Indian Ocean. Among them is K. N. Chaudhuri, who sought to "discover the unity and diversity of Indian Ocean civilisations" by examining long-distance trade involving the many different geographic units and cultures that constituted this ocean. He undertook to define the Indian Ocean in …
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast Asia is located in a global context. A discussion …
Orang Asli and Melayu Relations
Tulisan ini berupaya untuk mendokumentasikan perubahan-perubahan dalam hubungan sosial di antara suku bangsa Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia dengan komuniti-komuniti Orang Asli. Dalam merekonstruksi kisah hubungan sosial itu, tulisan ini diawali dengan kajian tentang gerakan-gerakan pada masa prasejarah dan protosejarah dari nenek moyang Orang Asli dan Melayu. Orang Asli berasal dari wilayah tengah dan selatan Thailand. Orang Melayu berasal dari T…
Traversing the Malay–Indonesian World
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Leaves of the Same Tree
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The ‘informal Portuguese empire’ and the Topasses in the Solor archipelago and Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This study of Timor and the surrounding islands between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries provides evidence that, after the demise of the Portuguese Estado da India, an ‘informal’ or ‘shadow’ empire persisted but in uniquely localised ways. It describes the emergence of the ‘black Portuguese’ community known in Timor and the Solor archipelago as the Topasses. Their singular identity was based on the melding of indigenous and Portuguese blood…
Leaves of the Same Tree
Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region have engaged the complex issue of ethnicity. Leaves of the Same Tree takes on this concept and illustrates how historians can use it both as an analytical tool and as a subject of analysis to add further depth to our understanding of Southeast Asian pasts. Following a synthesis of some of the major issues in the complex world of e…
Nature of War and Peace among the Bugis–Makassar People
Using European (mainly Dutch) and indigenous accounts of the numerous wars fought in South Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, this paper reconstructs the nature of war and peace among the Bugis and Makassar people in that period
The trans-Sumatra trade and the ethnicization of the 'Batak
Aceh's Contribution to Standards of Malayness
L.Y. Andaya Cet article cherche à montrer, ce qu'on a longtemps méconnu, qu'Aceh a été un important État malais, dans la lignée de Srivijaya et de Melaka. À son apogée, il offrait un nouveau modèle de société malaise, caractérisée par des liens exceptionnellement forts avec l'ensemble du monde musulman. L'appartenance à l'islam était devenue un élément capital dans la définition d'Aceh en tant qu'Etat malais, et c'est ce qui a permis à l'islam de…
The Search for the ‘Origins’ of Melayu
Based on linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence, this essay describes the environment that produced the culture associated with the ‘Melayu’, or the Malays. It also argues that Melayu ethnicity was never predetermined but was contested on both sides of the Straits of Melaka
Unravelling Minangkabau Ethnicity
In the formation of ethnicity the interaction between the views of outside observers and insiders themselves is an important process. The Minangkabau, whose homeland is located in the uplands of central Sumatra, have been a popular source of study because of their matrilineal social organisation and the practice of the merantau , where young Minangkabau men leave the homeland to seek knowledge and fortune abroad. Since the 1970s as a result of th…
A History of Trade in the Sea of Melayu
The first reference to a ‘Sea of Melayu’ is from an Arabic document dated c. 1000, which noted that travellers ‘reaching the Sea of Melayu, were approaching the area of China’. While the location of the Sea of Melayu is not specified, the practice of naming a sea after a dominant people surrounding its shores suggests that this particular body of water must have been the Straits of Melaka. This is clear in the only other known reference to the us…
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On
The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was …
Response" to van Fraassen's Review of "The World of Maluku
A reply to a review can stimulate important debate, if the review is thoughtful and therefore encourages a further assessment of a particular subject. In this case, however, I am unable to respond in the manner I would have preferred because Dr. van Fraassen's review has not even begun to address the central concerns of the book. Instead, he focuses on a few isolated mistakes to prove that The World of Maluku is a sloppy work of scholarship. This…
The World of Maluku
The World of Maluku
Looking in Odd Mirrors
Book Review| August 01 1993 Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Vakgroup Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 1992. Leonard Y. Andaya Leonard Y. Andaya University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 780–781. https://doi.org/10.2307/2058925 Views…
Kingship- Adat Rivalry and the Role of Islam in South Sulawesi
In Bugis-Makassar society a king was identified in terms of his function in assuring the spiritual and material well-being of the whole community. Though distinguished from the rest of the population by the paraphernalia and “white blood” of kingship, the individual ruler did not reign in splendid isolation from the people. He was a visible presence whose active participation in the affairs of the community was an expected norm. On one level, he …
A History of Malaysia
A History of Malaysia
Formed in 1963, the Federation of Malaysia comprises the long peninsular land mass which separates the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea, together with the northern quarter of Borneo but excluding the small state of Brunei. Peninsular Malaysia, covering 131,794 square kilometres, is made up of eleven states: Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor (with the Federal Capital Territory of Kuala Lumpur), Melaka, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Tre…
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
to use the Dutch presence to institute far-reaching innovations in his society. It became apparent that, while the Company's initial involve ment with South Sulawesi had required some military action, its sub sequent activities were often limited to that of arbiter in local disputes. Y et its approval was an essential element without which no local prince could exercise authority confidently. The reputation of the Company helped to sustain its po…
The Search for the ‘Origins’ of Melayu
Based on linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence, this essay describes the environment that produced the culture associated with the ‘Melayu’, or the Malays. It also argues that Melayu ethnicity was never predetermined but was contested on both sides of the Straits of Melaka
The World of Maluku
Leaves of the Same Tree
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
The ‘informal Portuguese empire’ and the Topasses in the Solor archipelago and Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This study of Timor and the surrounding islands between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries provides evidence that, after the demise of the Portuguese Estado da India, an ‘informal’ or ‘shadow’ empire persisted but in uniquely localised ways. It describes the emergence of the ‘black Portuguese’ community known in Timor and the Solor archipelago as the Topasses. Their singular identity was based on the melding of indigenous and Portuguese blood…
Aceh's Contribution to Standards of Malayness
L.Y. Andaya Cet article cherche à montrer, ce qu'on a longtemps méconnu, qu'Aceh a été un important État malais, dans la lignée de Srivijaya et de Melaka. À son apogée, il offrait un nouveau modèle de société malaise, caractérisée par des liens exceptionnellement forts avec l'ensemble du monde musulman. L'appartenance à l'islam était devenue un élément capital dans la définition d'Aceh en tant qu'Etat malais, et c'est ce qui a permis à l'islam de…
The trans-Sumatra trade and the ethnicization of the 'Batak
A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830
Kingship- Adat Rivalry and the Role of Islam in South Sulawesi
In Bugis-Makassar society a king was identified in terms of his function in assuring the spiritual and material well-being of the whole community. Though distinguished from the rest of the population by the paraphernalia and “white blood” of kingship, the individual ruler did not reign in splendid isolation from the people. He was a visible presence whose active participation in the affairs of the community was an expected norm. On one level, he …
Flights of fancy
The aim of this essay is to show through just one greatly valued trade item — in this case, the bird of paradise — how even the most distant and apparently isolated areas of the world could be linked to the major metropoles through trade. Yet this trade was anything but a simple bilateral exchange. It involved a complex series of networks that extended from the collectors to various levels of intermediaries and secondary ports, and then to foreig…
Unravelling Minangkabau Ethnicity
In the formation of ethnicity the interaction between the views of outside observers and insiders themselves is an important process. The Minangkabau, whose homeland is located in the uplands of central Sumatra, have been a popular source of study because of their matrilineal social organisation and the practice of the merantau , where young Minangkabau men leave the homeland to seek knowledge and fortune abroad. Since the 1970s as a result of th…
A History of Trade in the Sea of Melayu
The first reference to a ‘Sea of Melayu’ is from an Arabic document dated c. 1000, which noted that travellers ‘reaching the Sea of Melayu, were approaching the area of China’. While the location of the Sea of Melayu is not specified, the practice of naming a sea after a dominant people surrounding its shores suggests that this particular body of water must have been the Straits of Melaka. This is clear in the only other known reference to the us…
Looking in Odd Mirrors
Book Review| August 01 1993 Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Vakgroup Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 1992. Leonard Y. Andaya Leonard Y. Andaya University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 780–781. https://doi.org/10.2307/2058925 Views…
Treaty conceptions and misconceptions; A case study from South Sulawesi
The Marathas themselves regarded the Treaty of 1779 as valid and binding upon them, and gave effect to its provisions. The treaty is frequently referred to as such in subsequent formal Maratha documents, including the two sanads [decrees] of 1783 and 1785, which purport to have been issued in pursuance of the Treaty. The Marathas did not at any time cast any doubt upon the validity or binding character of the Treaty. (IGJ 1960: 37
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On
The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was …
The Short History of the Kings of Siam by Jeremias van Vliet
Ideas on Research in South Sulawesi
In 1974-5 I had the opportunity to travel throughout South Sulawesi to read historical documents and to record oral traditions from different areas. During this period I was continually impressed by the openness of the people and the pride with which they discussed their history, customs and culture. Even the smallest village possessed its own unique history and traditions which have been jealously preserved by the elders of the community as a he…
Treaty conceptions and misconceptions; A case study from South Sulawesi
The Marathas themselves regarded the Treaty of 1779 as valid and binding upon them, and gave effect to its provisions. The treaty is frequently referred to as such in subsequent formal Maratha documents, including the two sanads [decrees] of 1783 and 1785, which purport to have been issued in pursuance of the Treaty. The Marathas did not at any time cast any doubt upon the validity or binding character of the Treaty. (IGJ 1960: 37
The Kingdom of Johor 1641-1728
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
to use the Dutch presence to institute far-reaching innovations in his society. It became apparent that, while the Company's initial involve ment with South Sulawesi had required some military action, its sub sequent activities were often limited to that of arbiter in local disputes. Y et its approval was an essential element without which no local prince could exercise authority confidently. The reputation of the Company helped to sustain its po…
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
A History of Malaysia
Formed in 1963, the Federation of Malaysia comprises the long peninsular land mass which separates the Indian Ocean from the South China Sea, together with the northern quarter of Borneo but excluding the small state of Brunei. Peninsular Malaysia, covering 131,794 square kilometres, is made up of eleven states: Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Selangor (with the Federal Capital Territory of Kuala Lumpur), Melaka, Johor, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Tre…
A History of Malaysia
Kingship- Adat Rivalry and the Role of Islam in South Sulawesi
In Bugis-Makassar society a king was identified in terms of his function in assuring the spiritual and material well-being of the whole community. Though distinguished from the rest of the population by the paraphernalia and “white blood” of kingship, the individual ruler did not reign in splendid isolation from the people. He was a visible presence whose active participation in the affairs of the community was an expected norm. On one level, he …
The World of Maluku
Looking in Odd Mirrors
Book Review| August 01 1993 Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea Looking in Odd Mirrors: The Java Sea. Edited by V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen. Leiden: Vakgroup Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 1992. Leonard Y. Andaya Leonard Y. Andaya University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (3): 780–781. https://doi.org/10.2307/2058925 Views…
Response" to van Fraassen's Review of "The World of Maluku
A reply to a review can stimulate important debate, if the review is thoughtful and therefore encourages a further assessment of a particular subject. In this case, however, I am unable to respond in the manner I would have preferred because Dr. van Fraassen's review has not even begun to address the central concerns of the book. Instead, he focuses on a few isolated mistakes to prove that The World of Maluku is a sloppy work of scholarship. This…
The World of Maluku
Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period; Twenty-Five Years On
The identity of “Southeast Asia” has been debated since the 1950s, when the region began to develop as an area of academic viability around which courses could be constructed, programmes built, and research published. Much less controversy has accompanied the growing use of “early modern”, a term which seems set to displace “precolonial” in periodizing Southeast Asian history. The phrase, of course, comes from scholarship on Europe, where it was …
Unravelling Minangkabau Ethnicity
In the formation of ethnicity the interaction between the views of outside observers and insiders themselves is an important process. The Minangkabau, whose homeland is located in the uplands of central Sumatra, have been a popular source of study because of their matrilineal social organisation and the practice of the merantau , where young Minangkabau men leave the homeland to seek knowledge and fortune abroad. Since the 1970s as a result of th…
A History of Trade in the Sea of Melayu
The first reference to a ‘Sea of Melayu’ is from an Arabic document dated c. 1000, which noted that travellers ‘reaching the Sea of Melayu, were approaching the area of China’. While the location of the Sea of Melayu is not specified, the practice of naming a sea after a dominant people surrounding its shores suggests that this particular body of water must have been the Straits of Melaka. This is clear in the only other known reference to the us…
Aceh's Contribution to Standards of Malayness
L.Y. Andaya Cet article cherche à montrer, ce qu'on a longtemps méconnu, qu'Aceh a été un important État malais, dans la lignée de Srivijaya et de Melaka. À son apogée, il offrait un nouveau modèle de société malaise, caractérisée par des liens exceptionnellement forts avec l'ensemble du monde musulman. L'appartenance à l'islam était devenue un élément capital dans la définition d'Aceh en tant qu'Etat malais, et c'est ce qui a permis à l'islam de…
The Search for the ‘Origins’ of Melayu
Based on linguistic, archaeological, and historical evidence, this essay describes the environment that produced the culture associated with the ‘Melayu’, or the Malays. It also argues that Melayu ethnicity was never predetermined but was contested on both sides of the Straits of Melaka
The trans-Sumatra trade and the ethnicization of the 'Batak
Nature of War and Peace among the Bugis–Makassar People
Using European (mainly Dutch) and indigenous accounts of the numerous wars fought in South Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century, this paper reconstructs the nature of war and peace among the Bugis and Makassar people in that period
Leaves of the Same Tree
Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region have engaged the complex issue of ethnicity. Leaves of the Same Tree takes on this concept and illustrates how historians can use it both as an analytical tool and as a subject of analysis to add further depth to our understanding of Southeast Asian pasts. Following a synthesis of some of the major issues in the complex world of e…
The ‘informal Portuguese empire’ and the Topasses in the Solor archipelago and Timor in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
This study of Timor and the surrounding islands between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries provides evidence that, after the demise of the Portuguese Estado da India, an ‘informal’ or ‘shadow’ empire persisted but in uniquely localised ways. It describes the emergence of the ‘black Portuguese’ community known in Timor and the Solor archipelago as the Topasses. Their singular identity was based on the melding of indigenous and Portuguese blood…
Leaves of the Same Tree
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Orang Asli and Melayu Relations
Tulisan ini berupaya untuk mendokumentasikan perubahan-perubahan dalam hubungan sosial di antara suku bangsa Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia dengan komuniti-komuniti Orang Asli. Dalam merekonstruksi kisah hubungan sosial itu, tulisan ini diawali dengan kajian tentang gerakan-gerakan pada masa prasejarah dan protosejarah dari nenek moyang Orang Asli dan Melayu. Orang Asli berasal dari wilayah tengah dan selatan Thailand. Orang Melayu berasal dari T…
Traversing the Malay–Indonesian World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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