No comments about Introduction to Old Javanese Language and Literature: A Kawi Prose Anthology (Michigan series in South and Southeast Asian languages and linguistics).

No comments about Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: A Bibliographic Guide to Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Minangkakau, Thai, and Vietnamese (Tauris Academic Studies).

No comments about Speaking through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 19).

No comments about Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City.

No comments about Javanese Grammar For Students.

No comments about Javanese English Dictionary.

No comments about Javanese-English Dictionary (Linguistic).

2 comments about Shifting Languages: Interaction and Identity in Javanese Indonesia (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, No. 19).

1. The Javanese have great pride in their language which for some people it is considered as the language of the feudalism. Not being able to speak the appropriate Javanese especially to the elders is embarassing: a Javanese should speak good Javanese. But now, the national language has caused great change. The author has made thorough studies regarding it. The book will make a comprehensive reference for researchers and scholars interested in the field of language shift. There is no such book that gives a full description about the language shift from Javanese to Indonesian.



2. Errington strikes again. In this book Errington repeats his sophomoric fallacies of ignoring all established theories on the subject. His own theories entangled in his convoluted and verbose prose seem to exist more to contradict the foundations of anthropological though such as Steven Pinker's, than to offer intelligent and reasonable alternatives. Academia is not a sandbox, and Errington should stop kicking over big kids' sandcastles.

1 comments about Javanese: A Cultural Approach (Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series).

1. This is a textbook for the study of the Javanese language which should be of interest for anyone seriously interested in learning Javanese in its right cultural setting. This book consists of 20 chapters with (quite revealing) titles such as: "Situating People," "A Formal Visit," "Coping with the Bureacracy," "A Funeral," and "At the Market." Each chapter consists of a dialogue in two variants, ngoko and krama ("low-" and "high-javanese"). As such the student learn to shift between the two speech levels already from the beginning and this is of extreme importance. Every new word in the dialogues are discussed at some length by the author, and every dialogue is also complemented by cultural notes and a list of new words. The cultural notes in themselves should be of interest to anyone interested in Javanese cultural life, and anyone who has spent some time in Java will definitely be up for a good laugh remembering his/her own experiences. Every chapter, furthermore, comes with a couple of pattern practices and transformation drills (from one level to another), which according to me could be more substantial. All the dialogues are also translated into Indonesian which is a great help for those who already are familiar with this language.

   "Javanese: A Cultural Approach" is not an easy book to get through, and the student will probably feel helpless at times, but the result will come within short, and this is the best book on the Javanese language I have seen so far.

1 comments about On Thrones of Gold: Three Javanese Shadow Plays.

1. This Book is still one of a kind. Since it was published in 1970, it is still the only reliable Book which gives the complete Text of three Wayang Kulit (Javanese Shadow Puppet) Lakon (Plays). "The Reincanation of Rama" from the Ramayana and "Irawan's Wedding" and "The Death of Karna" from the Mahabharata. The Book begins with a fine introduction to Wayang, the Plays, Performance and Translation. The translation from Javanese was rendered by Pandam Guritno, one of the froemost Javanese Wayang Scholars of all time, whom I knew personally. Next follow the texts of the three Plays, which include 143 illustrations. James Brandon has also included descriptions of the action that takes place and the musical pieces that are played. The reader can thus review three performances through reading. At the end of the Book are useful Appendices, Notes on Sources, a good Glossary and a now outdated Bibliography. This Book is useful for those who are interested in Wayang, Javanese Culture, Theater Arts, Sanskrit Literature and many other subjects. That is what makes Wayang so wonderful. It is many things in one.