Book Reviews
Authors: KITLV Redactie 
Published: April 2013

Chris Ballard, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke, Tracy Harwood (eds); The sweet potato in Oceania; A reappraisal (Peter Boomgaard)

Caroline Hughes; The political economy of Cambodia’s transition, 1991-2001 (Han Ten Brummelhuis)

Richard Robison, Vedi Hadiz; Reorganising power in Indonesia; The politics of oligarchy in an age of markets (Marleen Dieleman)

Michael W. Charney; Southeast Asian warfare, 1300-1900 (Hans Hägerdal)

Daniel Perret, Amara Srisuchat, Sombun Thanasuk (eds); Études sur l´histoire du sultanat de Patani (Mary Somers Heidhues)

Joel Robbins; Becoming sinners; Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society (Menno Hekker)

Mujiburrahman; Feeling threatened; Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia’s New Order (Gerry van Klinken)

Marie-Odette Scalliet; De Collectie-Galestin in de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek (Dick van der Meij)

James Neil Sneddon; Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (Don van Minde)

James Leach; Creative land; Place and procreation on the Rai coast of Papua New Guinea (Dianne van Oosterhout)

Stanley J. Ulijaszek (ed.); Population, reproduction and fertility in Melanesia (Dianne van Oosterhout)

Angela Hobart; Healing performances of Bali; Between darkness and light (Nathan Porath)

Leo Suryadinata (ed.); Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia (Roderich Ptak)

Ruth Barnes; Ostindonesien im 20. Jahrhundert; Auf den Spuren der Sammlung Ernst Vatter (Reimar Schefold)

Marie-Antoinette Willemsen; Een missionarisleven in brieven; Willem van Bekkum, Indië 1936-1998 (Karel Steenbrink)

Marie-Antoinette Willemsen; Een pionier op Flores; Jilis Verheijen (1908-1997), missionaris en onderzoeker (Karel Steenbrink)

Akitoshi Shimizu, Jan van Bremen (eds); Wartime Japanese anthropology in Asia and the Pacific (Fridus Steijlen)

Lilie Roosman; Phonetic experiments on the word and sentence prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak (Uri Tadmor)

Jamie D. Saul; The Naga of Burma; Their festivals, customs, and way of life (Nicholas Tapp)

K.S. Nathan, Mohammad Hashim Kamali (eds); Islam in Southeast Asia; Political, social and strategic challenges for the 21st century (Bryan S. Turner)

Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson, Robin Hide (eds); Papuan pasts; Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples (Lourens de Vries)

Leo Howe, The changing world of Bali; Religion, society and tourism (Carol Warren)

Sarah Weiss; Listening to an earlier Java; Aesthetics, gender, and the music of wayang in Central Java (Andrew N. Weintraub)

REVIEW ESSAY
Terry Crowley: Four grammars of Malakula languages
Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu)
Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Tape: a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu
Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
Crowley, Terry (ed. by John Lynch); Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu)
(Alexandre Francois)

REVIEW ESSAY
-- ‘The folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us’: the end of nature in Southeast Asia?
Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise, Amity A. Doolittle (eds); Conserving nature in culture; Case studies from Southeast Asia
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells; Nature and nation; Forests and development in peninsular Malaysia
Celia Lowe; Wild profusion; Biodiversity conservation in an Indonesian archipelago
John F. McCarthy; The fourth circle; A political ecology of Sumatra’s rainforest frontier
Budy P. Resosudarmo (ed.); The politics and economics of Indonesia’s natural resources
Jeffrey R. Vincent, Rozali Mohamed Ali; Managing natural
wealth; Environment and development in Malaysia
(David Henley)

In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde no. 163 (2007), no: 2/3, Leiden