A review of the ethnological investigations in the Dutch Indian archipelago / by J.C. van Eerde.

  • Johan van Eerde
Date:
1923
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    Dr. VAN Vollenhoven (the first volume appeared in 1918, the second will appear shortly), and centring round this a number of smaller hooks by the same author dealing with specific aspects of the subject; Misken¬ ningen van het adatrecht (1909), Een adatrechtboekje voor heel Indie (1910), De Indonesiër en zijn grond (1919). Dr. van Yollenhoven has further brought about the foundation of a Committee for the study of adat law (in Holland 1909), an advisory committee for adat law (at Batavia), an adat law foundation (since 1917), the co-operation of the ^DConinklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Ned.-Indië” with the ^^Koloniaal Instituut” and with foreign bodies also interested in this subject. Dr. van Vollenhoven is thus raising a monument of erudition for the living popular jurisprudence of the Indonesians. More than twenty bulky volumes on adat law and six volumes of Pandects liave already made the knowledge of this law easily accessible and the output of publications on the subject, including Leiden degree dissertations, still increases. A bibliography of the customary law of Indonesia was published in 1920 under the auspices of the Adat Law Foundation. As regards Indian plastic art, appreciation of this also has grown much during the last quarter of a century. The writings of Hein, Haddon, Foy, Richter, Rouffaer and Juynboll, von Saher, Pleyte, Jasper, Loeber, Nieuwenkamp, Nieuwenhuis, Roorda and many others bear testimony to the wide spread admiration w^hich the work of anony¬ mous Indonesian artists now excites. This applies to wood-carving, textile ornaments, metal work, and especially to Hindu-Javanese architecture and sculpture which are dealt wdth in the wmrk by Dr. Krom already referred to. A bibliography of the literature on Indian industrial art may be found in Loeber’s ‘‘Techniek en sierkunst in den Indischen Archipel Dl. VHI (1916). The Indian theatre has engaged the attention of Serrurier (1896), Hazeu (1897), and Juynboll (1918). With regard to music, we may refer to a thorough article in the Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, Vol H, p. 812 by J. F. Snelleman; native dancing has been treated in an article by Dr. G. J. Nieuwenhuis in Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographie, NXHI (1916) p. 183. There remain to be mentioned the study of literature of the Indonesians, which, as w^as pointed out above, has been much cultivated, and finally native science wXich expressed itself especially in primitive medicine and in the calendar on which various publications exist. Section 10. V7e may now ask the question wdiether, in addition to the principal works referring to Indonesian civilisation, it is not possible to become
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