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This collective volume contains papers and comments on these papers from an international symposium on Indonesia as a Field of Anthropological Study held in Leiden, 22-26 November 1982. The following contributions are listed: P.E. de Josselin de Jong, A field of anthropological study in transformation (with comments by G.B. Milner) / Robert Blust, Indonesia as a ‘Field of Linguistic Study’ / A. Teeuw, Indonesia as a ‘Field of Literary Study’. A case study: genealogical narrative texts as an Indonesian literary genre (with comments by Els Postel) / Sandra Niessen, Textiles are female…but what is femaleness? Toba Batak textiles in the Indonesian field of ethnological study (with comments by Wolfgang Marschall) / David S. Moyer, South Sumatra in the Indonesian Field of Anthropological Study (with comments by C.W. Watson) / J.J.J.M. Wuisman, The Rejang and the Field of Anthropological study concept (with comments by William D. Wilder) / Peter J.M. Nas, Settlements as symbols: The Indonesian town as a Field of Anthropological Study / Hans-Dieter Evers, Cities as a ‘Field of Anthropological Studies’ in South-East Asia / R. Hagesteijn, Continental Southeast Asian political myths compared / J.D.M. Platenkamp, The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the Field of Anthropological study (with comments by Cecile Barraud) / L.E. Visser, Who are the Sahu and what do they belong to? (with comments by E.K.M. Masinambow) / Rodney Needham, The transformation of prescriptive systems in Eastern Indonesia / P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Summary and conclusions
