Author: SNOUCK HURGRONJE, C.,
Title: Het Gajoland en zijne Bewoners. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Batavia, Landsdrukkerij, 1903. Large Stout 8°, later private clothbacked marbled boards, gilded title on spine. (xx), 452pp., 24 black/white captioned plates after photographs, printed marginalia, preface and introduction, list of plates, extensive foot-notes and register, table of contents. WITH: KAART behoorende bij Het Gajoland en zijne Bewoners; Very large coloured lithographed mani-folded paper map, 1:200000 (110x135 cm.) in its original printed paper envelope, loosely added. Extensive legenda printed at tail margin, nice inset-map at lower left corner of map, illustrating the goegraphical position of Gayo- and Alas districts towards Aceh Province. Dutch language study by one of the World's most famous Arabists, C. Snouck Hurgronje, being an Anthropo. Socio-political assessment of the indigenous Muslim Population of Gayo- and Alas Districts, Aceh Province. Published by Command of Dutch East Indies Government. WITH the very large coloured lithographed map, published several years after the text-volume which is almost NEVER present, in its original printed paper envelope. After a general description of Gajo-country: geography & physical appearance, author describes extensively religion (Islam), marriage, family-life, hereditary-rights, life-cycle, means of subsistence, political & civil administration, &c.. Very good copy in later private clothbacked marbled boards. Rare in such completeness. (paper envelope to map frayed at extremities, soled and waterstained to verso(blank), folds of map all reinforced with acidgree brown paper tape on verso (blank).

Keywords: gajo gayo alas district atjeh acen war history anthropology sociology society islam religion assessment sumatra politics muslim religion islam kinship colonialism indonesia southeast asia