A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3963542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Echols (corresponding author), John Crawfurd |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 391 |
| Publication date | 1973-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/599546 |
| OpenAlex | W1964834838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
Orientalist and colonial administrator John Crawfurd (1783–1868) published this work in 1856. He went to Calcutta as an assistant surgeon in the East India Company, then moved into administration, accompanying political missions to Java, Bali and Celebes, and heading missions to Siam, Vietnam and Burma. Retiring to England in 1828, Crawfurd became a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Ethnological Society. Having studied ancient Kawi, contemporary Javanese and the Malay language, he published extensively on Asia in his lifetime, including his History of the Indian Archipelago, a Malay-language dictionary, and accounts of missions to the courts of Siam, Cochin-China and Ava. This work focuses primarily on Java, Malay, Siam and the Philippines. A monumental account of the culture, politics, language and geography of the region, organised as encyclopedic entries, it remains an invaluable source of information on the Victorian presentation and understanding of South-East Asia
Ancient history · Archaeology · Archipelago · China · Colonialism · Genealogy · Geography · Java · Linguistics · Malay · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Asian Studies and History · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Pre-Colonial Economy of Indonesia
The 'Discovery' of Penang Island at Tanjong Tokong before 1785
Singapore as a Port City, c.1290–1819
Whither Berhala
Singapore in the Cycles of the Longue Durée
Toward a new understanding of population change in Bali
Population estimates for the Malay Peninsula in the Nineteenth Century, with special reference to the East Coast States
Money and its Uses in the Javanese States of the Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries A.D
Music in Nineteenth Century Java
Malay Local History
The 1857 Chinese Rebellion in Sarawak
Common ground
Street Names in Colonial Singapore
Elephants, horses, and the coming of Islam to Northern Sumatra
Europe and the Malay world
Manufacturing Malayness
‘Go Back to the Batak, It's Safe There’
Hybridity and harmony
Blood Ties
On the Possible Cham Origin of the Philippine Scripts
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ́ Discourse on the Malay World
Reconstructing collective identities
Barter and Money in an Indonesian Village Economy
Singapore and its Straits, c.1500–1800
Bridging the Race Barrier
Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia
Overseas Chinese in Java and Their Liquidation in 1740
A note on Malay “historical” writings in Benkulen during the British Era
The power of letters and the female body
American Activity in North Borneo, 1865-1881
Dutch insanity
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2018 (65) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |