De Uma-taal (West Midden-Celebes)

Abstract

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Notes on C H Thomsen: missionary to the Malays

“…See Marsden (1812). Noorduyn (1957) discusses Thomsen's vocabularies of 1820, 1833, and 1837. Crawfurd himself compiled a "grammar and dictionary" in 1852; see Crawfurd (1852 Situmorang in 1952; see Roolvink (1970:xvi).…”

Principled Pragmatism:VOC Interaction with Makassar 1637-68, and the Nature of Company Diplomacy

“…Noorduyn for one stresses that the Bugis kingdoms, were "strictly hereditary in character", 172 although he also admits an aspect of pragmatism, or "pragmatic opportunism" as he calls it in the fact that "people oriented themselves to the person who manifested the greatest concentration of power. "…”

“…171 European and Southeast Asian conceptualisations of state-interaction are described as based on international (horizontal) law and (vertical) conceptions of hierarchies of rank respectively. 172 But Van Goor also describes the European diplomatic system on a par with his relativistic view of the macro-cultural field in a way to make the contrast to the Southeast Asian one as of a relative and not absolute kind. For instance, he makes a point that one of the defining qualities of the European system, reciprocity, did not lead to equality.…”