How do you write a history about people who cannot be found in archives? That question is the central part of Suze Zijlstra’s De voormoeders. Dasja Zonneveldt read and reviewed the book.
Tag: Indonesië
De Javaanse kris: machtssymbool pur sang
In this Beeldspraak Maud examines how the Javanese kris is a symbol of power and the practice of politics in various ways. She describes how gift-giving has traditionally been a way of maintaining political relations and why building a collection of colonial objects is not a neutral activity. She links all this to the kris that is central to this article, in order to illustrate the direct link between the object and the past.
