Java + Javanese culture

Book Reviews

• Andrew Beatty: Varieties of Javanese Religion
  An Anthropological Account
• Judith Becker: Gamelan Stories
  Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java
• Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen: Classical Javanese Dance
  The Surakarta tradition and its terminology
• James R. Brandon: On Thrones of Gold*
  Three Javanese Shadow Plays
• Jan Breman, Gunawan Wiradi: Good Times and Bad Times in Rural Java
  - krismon and the socioeconomics of two Javanese villages
• Benjamin Brinner: Knowing Music, Making Music
  Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction
• Louis Couperus: The Hidden Force
  - Dutch pragmatism encounters Javanese mysticism
• Robert Cribb: The Indonesian Killings 1965-1966
  Studies from Java and Bali
• Alit Djajasoebrata: Shadow Theatre in Java
  The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
• R.E. Elson: Suharto*
  A Political Biography
• Clifford Geertz: Agricultural Involution
  The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
• Rob Goodfellow: The Green Iguana
  - vignettes of life as an Australian expatriate in Bali and Java
• Margaret J. Kartomi: The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It
  An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution
• Jan Mrazek: Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia
  New Approaches to Performance Events
• Niels Mulder: Mysticism in Java
  Ideology in Indonesia
• Pramoedya Ananta Toer: This Earth of Mankind**
  - the Buru Quartet: novels of colonial Indonesia
• Laurens van der Post: The Admiral's Baby
  - a British officer in Java, 1945 to 1947

See also: Indonesia

I have visited Java twice and have an ongoing link to it through playing gamelan music.