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Anthropology in Indonesia

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The development of anthropology in Indonesia is based on a vast accumulation of records on Indonesian peoples and cultures left by foreign visitors who had come to the islands from time immemorial. Compared to the records left by the Chinese, Indians, and Arab merchants who had visited the islands centuries ago, those left by the earliest Western Europeans (travellers, sailors, missionaries, translators of the Bible, explorers, and the Dutch colonial civil servants) are the most important.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , September 1987 , pp. 217 - 234
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1987

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