Author: PIGEAUD, Theodore G.Th.
Title: Javaanse volksvertoningen. Bijdrage tot de beschrijving van land en volk.
Description: Batavia, 1938. 4to. Original cloth (hinges damaged but holding). With 125 illustrations on 46 plates (including 4 coloured). 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 Islands Java wayang
Title: Javaanse volksvertoningen. Bijdrage tot de beschrijving van land en volk.
Description: Batavia, 1938. 4to. Original cloth (hinges damaged but holding). With 125 illustrations on 46 plates (including 4 coloured). 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 Islands Java wayang
Price: EUR 412.50 = appr. US$ 448.32 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 31604
- Book number: 31604