Tom Hoogervorst
Biographic Data
| ID | 728888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Hoogervorst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoogervorst |
| SIGNATURE | HOOGERVORST T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Furniture terminology as a prism for cultural contact in Maritime Southeast Asia
This article provides a linguistic perspective on the history of furniture in Maritime Southeast Asia, while also drawing comparisons with the Southeast Asian mainland. It highlights the region’s connections with the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, China, and Europe. Most furniture-related terminology is borrowed from these areas, with only a few terms tracing their origins to the Austronesian language family. The concept of “furniture” in …
Sultans-bâtisseurs et innovations architecturales à Java au début de la période coloniale (XVIe-début XIXe siècle), by Hélène Njoto
Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia
The Food of the Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago , by Khir Johari
It would be an understatement to say that this magnum opus has done more than previous scholarship on Singapore's Malay cuisine.While containing 32 unique recipes, it is not a cookbook per se.Nor is it exclusively targeted to academics, who might hope to find this cuisine subjected to some new theory, hypothesis, or method.The author simply writes about the Malay food of Singapore because it is fascinating, important, and worth preserving.The res…
Filhos da terra: Identidades mestiças nos confins da expansão portuguesa , by António Manuel Hespanha
The Javanese Travels of Purwalelana: A Nobleman’s Account of His Journeys Across the Island of Java, 1860–1875, by Judith E. Bosnak and Frans X. Koot (eds.)
The Screaming Injustice of Colonial Relationships: Tracing Chinese Anti-racist Activism in the Netherlands
An insensitive poem published in 1935 sparked a wave of outrage among the Indies Chinese students in the Netherlands. Titled The yellow peril, it had started as an inside joke among Leiden's Indologists, yet quickly aroused the fury of both moderates and radicals. Their anti-colonial activism flared up for months, attracting numerous allies and eventually taking hold in the Netherlands Indies. After the Indologists had apologized, the number of a…
Ḥaḍramī Mobilities, Colonial Histories, and Southeast Asia
The Tale of Tea: A Comprehensive History of Tea from Prehistoric Times to Present Day, by George van Driem
What connects Pakistan's internet sensation Arshad Khan to Alexandre Dumas?What do the Opium Wars have in common with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the Hell's Grannies from Monty Python with Doris Day?In one word: tea.In this extraordinary monograph, George van Driem introduces his readers to Yunnanese villagers, Chinese emperors, Japanese poets, Portuguese conquistadores, Dutch capitalists, English anti-saccharites, Parisian culinary inn…
The Rise of the Chef in Java
This study traces the professionalization of cooking in Southeast Asia, specifically in precolonial Java. We call attention to three different types of cooks documented in the island’s textual record: household cooks (including commercial cooks), cooks in religious establishments, and professional cooks. Women were in charge of the first category, whereas the second and third were controlled by men yet also featured women. Household cooks and rel…
Dutch Sinologists, Chinese Annals, and Other Stories: Two Ground-Breaking Contributions to Chinese-Indonesian Historiography
Invisible Agents of Eastern Trade: Foregrounding Island Southeast Asian Agency in Pre-modern Globalisation
Hoogervorst, T., & Boivin, N. (2018). Invisible Agents of Eastern Trade: Foregrounding Island Southeast Asian Agency in Pre-modern Globalisation. In N. Boivin & M. Frachetti (Eds.), Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History' (pp. 205-231). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sailors, Tailors, Cooks, and Crooks: On Loanwords and Neglected Lives in Indian Ocean Ports
A renewed interested in Indian Ocean studies has underlined possibilities of the transnational. This study highlights lexical borrowing as an analytical tool to deepen our understanding of cultural exchanges between Indian Ocean ports during the long nineteenth century, comparing loanwords from several Asian and African languages and demonstrating how doing so can re-establish severed links between communities. In this comparative analysis, four …
L’ Indonésien, written by Philippe Grangé
Learning to Love the Unknown: Chinese-Indonesian Contributions to Nation Building
mitulungi ('Every human being ought to be
Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java (1900-1942): Images and Language
This study investigates Java’s urban middle classes and their importance in the formation of ‘modern’ lifestyles in Indonesia. They formed the backbone of both the Dutch colonial project and the resultant Indonesian nation-state. By foregrounding lifestyle as the defining factor of middle-class identity, we demonstrate how language and images provide a methodological framework to reconstruct this group’s ambitions and aspirations. Their language,…
Manliness in Sino-Malay publications in the Netherlands Indies
This study investigates constructions of manliness in the late-colonial Netherlands Indies (1870s–1930s), with particular reference to the so-called ‘Sino-Malay’ novels and newspapers produced by its local-born, culturally hybrid Chinese population (Peranakan). These authors incorporated ideas from South East Asia as well as China and Europe in their works, providing insights in traditional notions of heteronormative manhood, but also exposing ma…
Koloniallinguistik: Sprache in kolonialen Kontexten, edited by Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke and Marina Wienberg
Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia
Commercial and cultural links between South India and Maritime Southeast Asia have been strong and regular since antiquity. This paper adds a linguistic dimension to our understanding of ancient interethnic contact in the region through an exploration of the hitherto poorly understood lexical contributions from Dravidian languages, such as Tamil and Malayāḷam, to the languages of Maritime Southeast Asia. First, the sound changes are addressed tha…
Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World
This book casts a new light on the role of Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World. It brings together data and approaches from archaeology and historical linguistics with the aim to reconstruct pre-modern cultural and language contact between Southeast Asia and South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The interdisciplinary approach employed in this study reveals that insular Southeast Asian seafarers, traders and settlers had left t…
Across the Indian Ocean: The Prehistoric Movement of Plants and Animals
Here is a major research project that is peopling the Indian Ocean with prehistoric seafarers exchanging native crops and stock between Africa and India. Not the least exciting part of the work is the authors' contention that the prime movers of this maritime adventure were not the great empires but a multitude of small-scale entrepreneurs
Across the Indian Ocean: The Prehistoric Movement of Plants and Animals
Here is a major research project that is peopling the Indian Ocean with prehistoric seafarers exchanging native crops and stock between Africa and India. Not the least exciting part of the work is the authors' contention that the prime movers of this maritime adventure were not the great empires but a multitude of small-scale entrepreneurs
Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java (1900-1942): Images and Language
This study investigates Java’s urban middle classes and their importance in the formation of ‘modern’ lifestyles in Indonesia. They formed the backbone of both the Dutch colonial project and the resultant Indonesian nation-state. By foregrounding lifestyle as the defining factor of middle-class identity, we demonstrate how language and images provide a methodological framework to reconstruct this group’s ambitions and aspirations. Their language,…
Sailors, Tailors, Cooks, and Crooks: On Loanwords and Neglected Lives in Indian Ocean Ports
A renewed interested in Indian Ocean studies has underlined possibilities of the transnational. This study highlights lexical borrowing as an analytical tool to deepen our understanding of cultural exchanges between Indian Ocean ports during the long nineteenth century, comparing loanwords from several Asian and African languages and demonstrating how doing so can re-establish severed links between communities. In this comparative analysis, four …
Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia
Commercial and cultural links between South India and Maritime Southeast Asia have been strong and regular since antiquity. This paper adds a linguistic dimension to our understanding of ancient interethnic contact in the region through an exploration of the hitherto poorly understood lexical contributions from Dravidian languages, such as Tamil and Malayāḷam, to the languages of Maritime Southeast Asia. First, the sound changes are addressed tha…
The Rise of the Chef in Java
This study traces the professionalization of cooking in Southeast Asia, specifically in precolonial Java. We call attention to three different types of cooks documented in the island’s textual record: household cooks (including commercial cooks), cooks in religious establishments, and professional cooks. Women were in charge of the first category, whereas the second and third were controlled by men yet also featured women. Household cooks and rel…
Manliness in Sino-Malay publications in the Netherlands Indies
This study investigates constructions of manliness in the late-colonial Netherlands Indies (1870s–1930s), with particular reference to the so-called ‘Sino-Malay’ novels and newspapers produced by its local-born, culturally hybrid Chinese population (Peranakan). These authors incorporated ideas from South East Asia as well as China and Europe in their works, providing insights in traditional notions of heteronormative manhood, but also exposing ma…
Across the Indian Ocean: The Prehistoric Movement of Plants and Animals
Here is a major research project that is peopling the Indian Ocean with prehistoric seafarers exchanging native crops and stock between Africa and India. Not the least exciting part of the work is the authors' contention that the prime movers of this maritime adventure were not the great empires but a multitude of small-scale entrepreneurs
Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World
This book casts a new light on the role of Southeast Asia in the ancient Indian Ocean World. It brings together data and approaches from archaeology and historical linguistics with the aim to reconstruct pre-modern cultural and language contact between Southeast Asia and South Asia, East Africa and the Middle East. The interdisciplinary approach employed in this study reveals that insular Southeast Asian seafarers, traders and settlers had left t…
Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia
Commercial and cultural links between South India and Maritime Southeast Asia have been strong and regular since antiquity. This paper adds a linguistic dimension to our understanding of ancient interethnic contact in the region through an exploration of the hitherto poorly understood lexical contributions from Dravidian languages, such as Tamil and Malayāḷam, to the languages of Maritime Southeast Asia. First, the sound changes are addressed tha…
Manliness in Sino-Malay publications in the Netherlands Indies
This study investigates constructions of manliness in the late-colonial Netherlands Indies (1870s–1930s), with particular reference to the so-called ‘Sino-Malay’ novels and newspapers produced by its local-born, culturally hybrid Chinese population (Peranakan). These authors incorporated ideas from South East Asia as well as China and Europe in their works, providing insights in traditional notions of heteronormative manhood, but also exposing ma…
Koloniallinguistik: Sprache in kolonialen Kontexten, edited by Daniel Schmidt-Brücken, Susanne Schuster, Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke and Marina Wienberg
L’ Indonésien, written by Philippe Grangé
Learning to Love the Unknown: Chinese-Indonesian Contributions to Nation Building
mitulungi ('Every human being ought to be
Urban Middle Classes in Colonial Java (1900-1942): Images and Language
This study investigates Java’s urban middle classes and their importance in the formation of ‘modern’ lifestyles in Indonesia. They formed the backbone of both the Dutch colonial project and the resultant Indonesian nation-state. By foregrounding lifestyle as the defining factor of middle-class identity, we demonstrate how language and images provide a methodological framework to reconstruct this group’s ambitions and aspirations. Their language,…
Invisible Agents of Eastern Trade: Foregrounding Island Southeast Asian Agency in Pre-modern Globalisation
Hoogervorst, T., & Boivin, N. (2018). Invisible Agents of Eastern Trade: Foregrounding Island Southeast Asian Agency in Pre-modern Globalisation. In N. Boivin & M. Frachetti (Eds.), Globalization in Prehistory: Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History' (pp. 205-231). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sailors, Tailors, Cooks, and Crooks: On Loanwords and Neglected Lives in Indian Ocean Ports
A renewed interested in Indian Ocean studies has underlined possibilities of the transnational. This study highlights lexical borrowing as an analytical tool to deepen our understanding of cultural exchanges between Indian Ocean ports during the long nineteenth century, comparing loanwords from several Asian and African languages and demonstrating how doing so can re-establish severed links between communities. In this comparative analysis, four …
The Rise of the Chef in Java
This study traces the professionalization of cooking in Southeast Asia, specifically in precolonial Java. We call attention to three different types of cooks documented in the island’s textual record: household cooks (including commercial cooks), cooks in religious establishments, and professional cooks. Women were in charge of the first category, whereas the second and third were controlled by men yet also featured women. Household cooks and rel…
Dutch Sinologists, Chinese Annals, and Other Stories: Two Ground-Breaking Contributions to Chinese-Indonesian Historiography
The Tale of Tea: A Comprehensive History of Tea from Prehistoric Times to Present Day, by George van Driem
What connects Pakistan's internet sensation Arshad Khan to Alexandre Dumas?What do the Opium Wars have in common with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the Hell's Grannies from Monty Python with Doris Day?In one word: tea.In this extraordinary monograph, George van Driem introduces his readers to Yunnanese villagers, Chinese emperors, Japanese poets, Portuguese conquistadores, Dutch capitalists, English anti-saccharites, Parisian culinary inn…
The Javanese Travels of Purwalelana: A Nobleman’s Account of His Journeys Across the Island of Java, 1860–1875, by Judith E. Bosnak and Frans X. Koot (eds.)
The Screaming Injustice of Colonial Relationships: Tracing Chinese Anti-racist Activism in the Netherlands
An insensitive poem published in 1935 sparked a wave of outrage among the Indies Chinese students in the Netherlands. Titled The yellow peril, it had started as an inside joke among Leiden's Indologists, yet quickly aroused the fury of both moderates and radicals. Their anti-colonial activism flared up for months, attracting numerous allies and eventually taking hold in the Netherlands Indies. After the Indologists had apologized, the number of a…
Ḥaḍramī Mobilities, Colonial Histories, and Southeast Asia
Monsoon Asia: A reader on South and Southeast Asia
The Food of the Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels through the Archipelago , by Khir Johari
It would be an understatement to say that this magnum opus has done more than previous scholarship on Singapore's Malay cuisine.While containing 32 unique recipes, it is not a cookbook per se.Nor is it exclusively targeted to academics, who might hope to find this cuisine subjected to some new theory, hypothesis, or method.The author simply writes about the Malay food of Singapore because it is fascinating, important, and worth preserving.The res…
Filhos da terra: Identidades mestiças nos confins da expansão portuguesa , by António Manuel Hespanha
Sultans-bâtisseurs et innovations architecturales à Java au début de la période coloniale (XVIe-début XIXe siècle), by Hélène Njoto
Furniture terminology as a prism for cultural contact in Maritime Southeast Asia
This article provides a linguistic perspective on the history of furniture in Maritime Southeast Asia, while also drawing comparisons with the Southeast Asian mainland. It highlights the region’s connections with the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, China, and Europe. Most furniture-related terminology is borrowed from these areas, with only a few terms tracing their origins to the Austronesian language family. The concept of “furniture” in …
Asian Studies and History (13 works) · History (12 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (11 works) · History (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Malay (6 works) · Philippine History and Culture (6 works)