Author: PIGEAUD, Theodore G.Th.
Title: Javaanse volksvertoningen. Bijdrage tot de beschrijving van land en volk.
Description: Batavia, 1938. 4to. Modern cloth, lettered in gilt. With 42 (of 46) plates. 545 pp. Kind of encyclopaedic book on various forms of mask performances, mummery, horse-dances, Muslim influenced group-dances and group-singing by young boys and men, as well as reflections on their role in the Javanese and Madurese communities and their religious meaning in connection with cosmological classifications, being also a rich source for various kinds of wayang theatre, especially the wayang wong (Groenendael, Wayang theatre in Indonesia, 375).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia art Java wayang
Title: Javaanse volksvertoningen. Bijdrage tot de beschrijving van land en volk.
Description: Batavia, 1938. 4to. Modern cloth, lettered in gilt. With 42 (of 46) plates. 545 pp. Kind of encyclopaedic book on various forms of mask performances, mummery, horse-dances, Muslim influenced group-dances and group-singing by young boys and men, as well as reflections on their role in the Javanese and Madurese communities and their religious meaning in connection with cosmological classifications, being also a rich source for various kinds of wayang theatre, especially the wayang wong (Groenendael, Wayang theatre in Indonesia, 375).
Keywords: Indonesia Indonesia art Java wayang
Price: EUR 302.50 = appr. US$ 328.77 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 30758
- Book number: 30758