ALKEMA, B. & T.J. BEZEMER,
Beknopt Handboek der Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië. Orig. edn.
Haarlem, Tjeenk Willink, 1927. large 8°. orig.gilt lettered cloth. (xiii), 583pp. 131 text-ills. A 'concise' manual of the anthropology & ethnology of colonial Indonesia (:) races & linguistics, family-life and society, paganism, Hindu-religion and colonization, Islam (incl. education) & christianization, time-keeping, means of subsistence, housing & villages, relaxation: sports, [wayang] theatre, games, family-ceremonies and customs, arts & crafts (: plaiting & braiding, tapa-clothing, weaving & batik, bamboo-decoration, earthenwares, smithing: keris and other weapons, leatherwork,&c..). Illustr. are mainly of ethnographical interest. A much underestimated work. Good copy. (bds. somewh. shaved at rims).
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