Stephen C Druce
Address: Dr Stephen C. Druce
Deputy Director
Academy of Brunei Studies
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Tungku Link, Gadong BE 1410
Negara Brunei Darussalam
Deputy Director
Academy of Brunei Studies
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Tungku Link, Gadong BE 1410
Negara Brunei Darussalam
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The Brunei Museum Journal is a publication of the Brunei Museums Department and is dedicated to advancement of knowledge of Brunei Darussalam, Borneo and Southeast Asia.
ADVISOR: Dr Siti Norkhalbi binti Haji Wahsalfelah Deputy Permanent Secretary (Cultural) Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.
GUEST CHIEF EDITOR: Dr Stephen C. Druce Programme Leader in Graduate Studies and Research, Academy of Brunei Studies, Associate Researcher, Institute of Asian Studies
2.Christian Pelras and His Work, by Campbell Macknight
3.Orality and Writing among the Bugis (trans. Campbell Macknight), by Christian Pelras
4.The Media of Bugis Literature: A Coda to Pelras, by Campbell Macknight
5.Transmitting the past in South Sulawesi: The hikajat Sawitto and other Bugis and Makasar Historical Works, by Stephen C. Druce
6.Family Matters: Bugis Genealogies and their Contribution to Austronesian Studies, by Ian Caldwell and Kathryn Wellen
7.The Inside View on Makassar's Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century History: Changing Marital Alliances and Settlement Patterns, by David Bulbeck
8.The Pau-paunna Indale Patara: Sufism and the Bugis Adaption and Transformation of the hikayat Indra Putera, by Nurhayati Rahman
9.Narratives of Sexuality in Bugis and Makasar Manuscripts, by Muhlis Hadrawi
Stephen Druce demonstrates this progression to political complexity by combining a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes).
The author also presents an inquiry into oral traditions of a historical nature in South Sulawesi. He examines their functions, their processes of transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship to written texts. He shows that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that the South Sulawesi chronicles, which can be found only for a small number of kingdoms, are not characteristic (as historians have argued) but exceptional in the corpus of indigenous South Sulawesi historical sources.
The book will be of primary interest to scholars of pre-European-contact Southeast Asia, including historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geographers, and scholars with a broader interest in oral tradition and the relationship between the oral and written registers.
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The Brunei Museum Journal is a publication of the Brunei Museums Department and is dedicated to advancement of knowledge of Brunei Darussalam, Borneo and Southeast Asia.
ADVISOR: Dr Siti Norkhalbi binti Haji Wahsalfelah Deputy Permanent Secretary (Cultural) Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.
GUEST CHIEF EDITOR: Dr Stephen C. Druce Programme Leader in Graduate Studies and Research, Academy of Brunei Studies, Associate Researcher, Institute of Asian Studies
2.Christian Pelras and His Work, by Campbell Macknight
3.Orality and Writing among the Bugis (trans. Campbell Macknight), by Christian Pelras
4.The Media of Bugis Literature: A Coda to Pelras, by Campbell Macknight
5.Transmitting the past in South Sulawesi: The hikajat Sawitto and other Bugis and Makasar Historical Works, by Stephen C. Druce
6.Family Matters: Bugis Genealogies and their Contribution to Austronesian Studies, by Ian Caldwell and Kathryn Wellen
7.The Inside View on Makassar's Sixteenth to Seventeenth Century History: Changing Marital Alliances and Settlement Patterns, by David Bulbeck
8.The Pau-paunna Indale Patara: Sufism and the Bugis Adaption and Transformation of the hikayat Indra Putera, by Nurhayati Rahman
9.Narratives of Sexuality in Bugis and Makasar Manuscripts, by Muhlis Hadrawi
Stephen Druce demonstrates this progression to political complexity by combining a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes).
The author also presents an inquiry into oral traditions of a historical nature in South Sulawesi. He examines their functions, their processes of transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship to written texts. He shows that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that the South Sulawesi chronicles, which can be found only for a small number of kingdoms, are not characteristic (as historians have argued) but exceptional in the corpus of indigenous South Sulawesi historical sources.
The book will be of primary interest to scholars of pre-European-contact Southeast Asia, including historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geographers, and scholars with a broader interest in oral tradition and the relationship between the oral and written registers.
The head of KPPSI is Abdul Aziz Qahhar Mudzakkar, a son of Qahhar Mudzakkar.
The paper focuses on three main aspects of Qahhar Mudzakkar and his legacy. The first examines traditional leadership in South Sulawesi, including the cultural characteristics expected of leaders, and draws comparisons with the seventeenth century. The second examines memories and perceptions of Qahhar and the rebellion, related by people who lived through or participated in the rebellion. The third looks at how Qahhar is perceived and the role he plays in modern day South Sulawesi, particularly in local politics as many see KPPSI (Preparatory Committee for the Application of Islamic Laws) as a continuation of Qahhar’s struggle. The head of KPPSI is Abdul Aziz Qahhar Mudzakkar, Qahhar Mudzakkar’s son.
3rd Nicholas Tarling Conference on Southeast Asian Studies. Exalted Heroes, Demonized Villains and Losers: Altering Perceptions and Memories of Leaders and Leadership in Southeast Asia, c.1800 - 2000, 12 - 13 November 2013 Faculty of Arts and Social Science
Stephen C. Druce (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
Women in pre-modern Southeast Asia generally enjoyed a high status and played important economic, ritual and, in some regions, political roles in society. They were also highly skilled negotiators, as noted by Dutch VOC officials who warned that in important matters local women should never be used as intermediaries, men being more compliant to their aims. Despite the work of scholars such as Barbara Andaya (The flaming womb: Repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia, 2006) the study of women in the premodern and early colonial world of Southeast Asia remains an underexplored topic.
Given their historical high status, it is perhaps not surprising that Southeast Asia produced a large number of female monarchs in comparison to the rest of the world. The best known are perhaps the successful queens of Aceh in the seventeenth century, who appear to have been the first to use the feminized title of sultanah. Patani’s seven queens, who ruled for most of the period from 1584 to 1711, have also been the subject of several studies Less well known are the Bugis female monarchs of South Sulawesi, a region that perhaps produced more female rulers than any other in Southeast Asia. Bugis manuscripts provide examples of female monarchs dating from the fourteenth century who exercised real power and authority, leading the expansion of several early kingdoms and the intensification of wet-rice agriculture. Later European sources too note the prominent political role of Bugis women in society and that women were the monarchs of several kingdoms.
Using indigenous Bugis textual and oral sources and data from later European observers, the paper discusses the role of Bugis women through history, focusing mainly on those who became rulers of kingdoms. Also highlighted are female progenitors of dynasties and the prominent role of Bugis aristocratic women in society.
Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) “Southeast Asian Studies in Asia” Conference, Kyoto, Japan, December 12-13, 2015.
PANEL: THE MONARCHY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Convenor: Stephen C. Druce (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)