This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim Leman, the hero?s name. This is a famous southern Batak
It’s the summer of 1983. Ronald Reagan is in the White House, Princess Leia is on magazine covers, and Thea Knox is on the road. Fresh out of college, Thea is driving solo from California to New
Written from an indigenous perspective at the end of an empire on the island of Sumatra, this novel offers many insights into a vanished world.Distributed for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov’s moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen
An anthropologist from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, (Rodgers) along with two textile experts, who have a background in physics and economics (Anne and John Summerfield) have combine
