Publications of Bernard Arps

Books, (co-)authored

Books, (co-)edited

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2016

• Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind: The Javanese Shadow-Play Dewa Ruci Performed by Ki Anom Soeroto. A Study in Performance Philology. Singapore: NUS Press. [x + 636 pp.]

2000

• (with Els Bogaerts, Willem van der Molen, Ignatius Supriyanto, Jan van den Veerdonk, and Betty Litamahuputty). Hedendaags Javaans: een leerboek. [Contemporary Javanese: a coursebook.] Leiden: Opleiding Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Universiteit Leiden, 2000. Semaian, 20. [xxvii + 581 pp.]

1994

• (with Sirtjo Koolhof and Henk Maier). Traditionele en moderne poëzie van Indonesië. [Traditional and modern poetry of Indonesia.] Leiden: Instituut Indonesische Cursussen, 1994. [64 pp.]

1992

• Tembang in two traditions: performance and interpretation of Javanese literature. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1992. [xiii + 485 pp.]

1991

• (with Annabel Teh Gallop). Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia / Surat emas: budaya tulis di Indonesia. London: British Library; Jakarta: Yayasan Lontar, 1991. [152 pp.]

1986

• (unpublished). Sekar ageng: over antieke Javaanse versvormen. [Sekar ageng: on antique Javanese verse forms.] [MA thesis in Javanese linguistics and literature, University of Leiden, 1986. ix + 175 pp.]

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Books, (co-)edited

2000

• (ed. with Willem van der Molen). Woord en schrift in de Oost: de betekenis van zending en missie voor de studie van taal en literatuur in Zuidoost-Azië. [Word and Script(ure) in the East: the meaning of Protestant and Roman Catholic mission for the study of language and literature in South-East Asia.] Leiden: Opleiding Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Universiteit Leiden, 2000. Semaian, 19. [x + 199 pp.]

1994

• (ed. with Willem van der Molen). Serat Lokapala kawi: an eighteenth-century manuscript of the Old Javanese Arjunawijaya by Mpu Tantular. A facsimile edition of manuscript Cod. Or. 2048 in the Library of Leiden University. Leiden: Indonesian Linguistics Development Project (ILDEP) in co-operation with Legatum Warnerianum in the Library of Leiden University, 1994. Manuscripta Indonesica, 3. [xlvi + 185 pp.]

1993

• (ed.). Performance in Java and Bali: studies of narrative, theatre, music, and dance. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1993. [xi + 244 pp.]

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Articles

Most of Bernard Arps’ chapters and articles can be downloaded in PDF from his Academia.edu website.

2021

• “Princess Sodara Kartika frees Amir from prison: The epic of Amir Hamza (?16th century).” Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia 22(3):651–674. [Also published open access at http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/1077/pdf_182.]

2020

• “Kepekaan filologis untuk pengkajian budaya.” [Philological sensitivity for cultural research.] Manuskripta 10(2):177–191. [Also published open access at http://journal.perpusnas.go.id/index.php/manuskripta/article/view/170.]

2019

• “The power of the heart that blazes in the world: an Islamic theory of religions in early modern Java.” Indonesia and the Malay World 47(139):308-334. [Also published open access at https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2019.1654217.)
• “The ethnolinguistic listener: narrativity and ideologies of local language in urban Banyuwangi.” In: Zane Goebel (ed.). 2019. Rapport and the discursive co-construction of social relations in fieldwork encounters, pp. 111–138. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Language and Social Life, 19.

2018

• “The benefits of purity in Amarta and Surakarta: the shadowplay of Bima Suci, 1817–1818.” In: Yumi Sugahara and Willem van der Molen (eds.), Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts, pp. 77–102. Tokyo: Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Javanese Studies, 5.
• “Drona’s betrayal and Bima’s brutality: javanaiserie in Malay culture.” In: Willem van der Molen and Ding Choo Ming (eds.), Traces of the Ramayana and Mahabharata in Javanese and Malay literature, pp. 58–98. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series, 34.

2017

• (with Helen Creese, Matthew Isaac Cohen, and Kathy Foley.) “Debate.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 173(1):115–131. [Three reviews of Tall tree, nest of the wind (Arps 2016) followed by a rejoinder.]

2016

• “Flat puppets on an empty screen, stories in the round: imagining space in wayang kulit and the worlds beyond.” Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia [Brill] 17(3):438–472.
• “Religion in Southeast Asian studies.” In: Kiri Paramore (ed.), Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies, pp. 13–23, 165. London and New York: Bloomsbury.

2012

• “Ethno-religious heritage in Singapore and the quest.” In: The Newsletter 62 (Winter):4–5.

2011

• “The lettuce song and its trajectory: the vagaries of a pop song in three eras.” In: Proceeding seminar internasional (musik) vokal, Festival Kesenian Indonesia (FKI) VII (Voice of the Archipelago Festival) Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Surakarta, pp. 28–42. Surakarta: Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Surakarta, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional.
• “Dewa Ruci and the light that is Muhammad: the Islamization of a Buddhist text in the Yasadipuran version of the Book of Dewa Ruci.” Paper presented at the seminar Pantheisme – manunggaling kawula lan Gusti dalam naskah Nusantara [‘Pantheism – the union of servant and Lord in Indonesian manuscripts’], held at the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, 5–6 September 2007.

2010

• “Terwujudnya bahasa Using di Banyuwangi dan peranan media elektronik di dalamnya (selayang pandang, 1970–2009).” [Realizing the Osing language in Banyuwangi and the role of the electronic media in this (a bird’s eye view, 1970–2009).] In: Mikihiro Moriyama and Manneke Budiman (eds.), Geliat bahasa selaras zaman: perubahan bahasa-bahasa di Indonesia pasca-Orde Baru, pp. 225–248. Jakarta: Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia.

2009

• “Osing Kids and the Banners of Blambangan: ethnolinguistic identity and the regional past as ambient themes in an East Javanese town.” Wacana: Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya 11(1):1–38.

2006

• (with Katinka van Heeren). “Ghosthunting and vulgar news: popular realities on recent Indonesian television.” In: Henk Schulte Nordholt and Ireen Hoogenboom (eds.), Indonesian transitions, pp. 289–325. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2006.
• “Dance-floor politics in easternmost Java.” IIAS Newsletter 40 (Spring 2006):11.

2003

• “Letters on air in Banyuwangi (and beyond): radio and phatic performance.” Indonesia and the Malay World 31 (91):301–316. (Special issue Letters from Nusantara, edited by W. van der Molen and E.P. Wieringa.)

2002

• “The sound of space: how to hear mise en scène in audio wayang.” In: Jan Mrázek (ed.), Puppet theater in contemporary Indonesia: new approaches to performance events, pp. 315–332. S.l.: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, 2002. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, 50.
• (with Ignatius Supriyanto). “Javanese on the internet.” Caraka, ‘The Messenger’: Newsletter for Javanists 37/38 (June–December 2002). Internet WWW page, at URL: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Caraka/37_38/special_report.htm.
• (with Patricia Spyer, Edwin Jurriëns, Katinka van Heeren, and Wiwik Sushartami). “Indonesian mediations: the re-imagining and re-imaging of community(s) in transition – a position paper.” In: Henk Schulte Nordholt and Irwan Abdullah (eds.), Indonesia: in search of transition, pp. 177–206. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2002.

2000

• “Indian influence on the Old Javanese linguistic tradition.” In: Sylvain Auroux, E. F. K. Koerner, Hans-Josef Niederehe, and Kees Versteegh (eds.), History of the language sciences: an international handbook on the evolution of the study of language from the beginnings to the present, Vol. 1, pp. 186–190. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2000.
• “De kwestie van het Javaanse kerkgezang.” [The issue of the Javanese church hymns.] In: Willem van der Molen and Bernard Arps (eds.), Woord en schrift in de Oost: de betekenis van zending en missie voor de studie van taal en literatuur in Zuidoost-Azië, pp. 1–32. Leiden: Opleiding Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Universiteit Leiden, 2000. Semaian, 19.
• “The regulation of beauty: J. Kats and Javanese poetics.” In: David Smyth (ed.), The canon in Southeast Asian literatures: literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, pp. 114–134. Richmond: Curzon, 2000.
• (intr. and trans.). “Déwa Rutji: avontuur en wijsheid in een Javaans verhaal.” [Dewa Ruci: adventure and wisdom in a Javanese story.] In: [Harry Poeze (ed.),] Oosterse omzwervingen: klassieke teksten over Indonesië uit Oost en West, pp. 81–119, 215–216. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2000. [This article is available here in PDF.]

1999

• “How a Javanese gentleman put his library in order.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155 (1999):416–469. [Special issue of Bijdragen entitled Encompassing knowledge: indigenous encyclopedias fron ninth-century Java to twentieth-century Riau, edited by Tony Day and Will Derks.

1998

• (with Betty Litamahuputty). “The teaching of Javanese world-wide.” Caraka, ‘The Messenger’: Newsletter for Javanists 30 (1998):1–13. Update in Caraka 34 (2000):1.

1997

• “Koning Salomo en het dwerghertje: taalpolitiek, taalonderwijs en de eerste grammatica’s in het Javaans.” [King Salomon and the mouse deer: language policy, language teaching, and the first grammars in Javanese.] In: Kees Groeneboer (ed.), Koloniale taalpolitiek in Oost en West: Nederlands-Indië, Suriname, Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba, pp. 85–105. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997.
• (with Teresa Birks, Els Bogaerts, Klarijn Loven, and Edwin Jurriëns). “An introduction to VA|AVMI.” Internet WWW page, at URL: http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/va-avmi/ (Update: 2 June 1997)

1996

• “To propagate morals through popular music: the Indonesian qasidah modéren.” In: Stefan Sperl and Christofer Shackle (eds.), Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, Vol. 1, Classical traditions and modern meanings, pp. 389–409. Leiden etc.: E. J. Brill, 1996. Studies in Arabic Literature, 20.1.
• (ed. and trans.). “Nyanyi gembira / Joyful song”, “Keméwahan / Luxury”, “Kota santri / The town of santris”, and “Syiar 9 wali / The propagation by the nine walis”. In: Stefan Sperl and Christofer Shackle (eds.), Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa, Vol. 2, Eulogy’s bounty, meaning’s abundance: an anthology, pp. 320–331, 464–465. Leiden etc.: E. J. Brill, 1996. Studies in Arabic Literature, 20.2.
• “The Song Guarding at Night: grounds for cogency in a Javanese incantation.” In: Stephen C. Headley (ed.), Vers une anthropologie de la prière: études ethnolinguistiques javanaises / Towards an anthropology of prayer: Javanese ethnolinguistic studies, pp. 47–113. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence, 1996.
• “Singing literature.” In: John Miksic (ed.), Ancient history, pp. 130–131. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 1996. Indonesian Heritage, 1.
• “Recitation of Javanese texts” and “Joseph in Java.” In: Ann Kumar and John H. McGlynn (eds.), Illuminations: the writing traditions of Indonesia, pp. 168–169, 174–175. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation; New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1996.
• “Javanese language, literature and theatre.” In: E. Ulrich Kratz (ed.), Southeast Asian languages and literatures: a bibliographical guide to Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Thai and Vietnamese, pp. 112–164. London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996.
• (compiler). “[Translations of Southeast Asian texts:] Javanese.” In: E. Ulrich Kratz (ed.), Southeast Asian languages and literatures: a bibliographical guide to Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Minangkabau, Thai and Vietnamese, pp. 419–429. London and New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 1996.

1995

• “Inleiding op de wayangvoorstelling” [Introduction to the wayang performance] and “Déwa Ruci: een Javaans schimmenspel” [Dewa Ruci: a Javanese shadow play]. In: Jos Janssen and Ben Arps, Déwa Ruci: een Javaans schimmenspel, pp. 9–13, 14–27. [Hilversum:] VPRO, 1995. [Booklet accompanying compact disk set “Déwa Ruci: een Javaans schimmenspel”, published by VPRO on the Eigen Wijs label, EW 9523.]

1994

• (with W. van der Molen). “Introduction.” In: Bernard Arps and Willem van der Molen (eds.), Serat Lokapala kawi: an eighteenth-century manuscript of the Old Javanese Arjunawijaya by Mpu Tantular. A facsimile edition of manuscript Cod. Or. 2048 in the Library of Leiden University, pp. v–xlvi. Leiden: Indonesian Linguistics Development Project (ILDEP) in co-operation with Legatum Warnerianum in the Library of Leiden University, 1994. Manuscripta Indonesica, 3.
• “Traditionele poëzie van Indonesië” [Traditional poetry of Indonesia], “De traditionele poëzie van Bali, Midden- en Oost-Java en de Sundalanden” [The traditional poetry of Bali, Central and East Java, and the Sunda lands], and (trans.) “Een duistere tijd” [‘A time of darkness’; the serat Kalatidha by Ranggawarsita]. In: Bernard Arps, Sirtjo Koolhof, and Henk Maier, Traditionele en moderne poëzie van Indonesië, pp. 4–5, 6–9, 17–21. Leiden: Instituut Indonesische Cursussen, 1994.
• “A tour of pantun tracts: planes of movement in a song from Banyuwangi.” In: Jan van der Putten (ed.), Bahwa inilah tanda kasih, yaitu persembahan persahabatan kepada yang termulia Prof Dr Muhammad Haji Salleh, pp. 79–97. Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1994.

1993

• “Introduction”. In: Bernard Arps (ed.), Performance in Java and Bali: studies of narrative, theatre, music, and dance, pp. 1–10. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1993.
• “Pengkajian bahasa dan sastra Jawa di Britania Raya: sejarah dan keadaan sekarang.” [The study of Javanese language and literature in Great Britain: history and present situation.] In: Sudaryanto, Darusuprapto, Sarwanto Tjokrowinoto, Soetomo WE, and Subagyo (eds.), Kongres Bahasa Jawa, Semarang, 15–20 Juli 1991: proseding. Buku IV, pp. 397–415. Surakarta: Yayasan Studi Bahasa Jawa ‘Kanthil’ and Penerbit Harapan Massa, 1993.
• “Indonesian” and “Scripts, Javanese and related”. In J. M. Y. Simpson (gen. ed.), The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Pergamon Press, 1993.

1992

• “Yusup, Sri Tanjung, and fragrant water: the adoption of a popular Islamic poem in Banyuwangi, East Java.” In: V. J. H. Houben, H. M. J. Maier, and W. van der Molen (eds.), Looking in odd mirrors: the Java Sea, pp. 112–145. Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1992. Semaian, 5.

1991

• “Antara ‘nêmbang’ dan ‘maca’: dampak ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi modern pada pembacaan puisi Jawa tradisional di Yogyakarta.” [Between ‘singing’ and ‘reciting’: the impact of scholarship and modern technology on the performance of traditional Javanese poetry in Yogyakarta.] Seni Pertunjukan Indonesia: Jurnal Masyarakat Musikologi Indonesia 2(2) (1991):69–118.

1990

• “Singing the life of Joseph: an all-night reading of the lontar Yusup in Banyuwangi, East Java.” Indonesia Circle 53 (1990):34–58.
• “Writings on wayang: approaches to puppet theatre in Java and Bali in fifteen recent books.” Indonesia Circle 52 (1990):55–87.

1988

• “Wayang in de film.” In: Fons Grasveld (ed.), Tanah Sabrang, land aan de overkant: landbouwkolonisatie en wayang in een film van Mannus Franken, pp. 15–27. Amsterdam: Mannus Franken Stichting / Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen / Filminstituut, 1988. NFI-Verkenningen, 43.

1985

• “Volkstradities en instituties in het middenjavaanse wayangtheater.” [Popular traditions and institutions in central Javanese shadow theatre.] In: C. P. Epskamp (ed.), Theater op Java, pp. 28–55. Zutphen: de Walburg Pers, 1985. Scenarium, Nederlandse Reeks voor Theaterwetenschap, 9.

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