Bart Barendregt
Vice-dean of Research/ Professor Anthropology of Digital Diversity
- Name
- Prof.dr. B.A. Barendregt
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3475
- barendregt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0001-9745-9587
Bart Barendregt is a professor Digital Anthropology at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology (CADS) as well as the UNESCO Chair of the Anthropology of Digital Diversity. He is the current vice dean for research at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and dean of its Graduate School. Bart’s research and teaching straddles the fields of religious, social technology and area studies with a particular focus on the study of meaning-making processes through new emergent technologies. Most of Bart’s ethnographic projects have focused on Muslim Southeast Asia, where since the early nineties he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the NWO-VICI project One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam.
More information about Bart Barendregt
News
Publications
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Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography: A Practical and Theoretical Guide
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Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online
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Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments
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Popular Music in Southeast Asia
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Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
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Merenungkan Gema, Pemjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda
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Sonic Modernities in the Malay World
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Sonic Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters
In the media
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A Common AI Future: Perspectives from the Islamic World?
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A Multisensorial Journey through the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus East African Research Network Symposium
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Interview Dr. Mbathi and prof. dr. Bart Barendregt at the LDE East African Research Network Symposium
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A Common AI Future: Perspectives from the Islamic World?
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Antropoloog Bart Barendregt ontvangt vici beurs
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Science on AIR presenteert: Bart Barendregt
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Ikke Nurjanah, Europalia Indonesia di Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag
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VPRO Radio: Gladde jongens zingen “Allah Akbar”
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ISIM Review ‘The Sound of Islam: Southeast Asian Boy Bands
Short CV
Bart Barendregt is a professor Digital Anthropology at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology (CADS) as well as the UNESCO Chair of the Anthropology of Digital Diversity. He is the vice dean for research at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and dean of its Graduate School, taking care of portfolios such as interdisciplinary research, PhD candidate policies and science communication.
His own research and teaching straddles the fields of religious, social technology and area studies with a particular focus on the study of meaning-making processes through new emergent technologies. Most of Bart’s ethnographic projects have focused on Muslim Southeast Asia, where since the early nineties he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of the NWO-VICI project One Among Zeroes |0100| Towards an Anthropology of Everyday AI in Islam.
Bart is a board member of the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and for six years served as a board member and national representative of the European Society of Southeast Asian Studies, as well as a member of its Nikkei Asian Review Social Science Book Prize committee. Bart acted a visiting professor (teaching and research): at the National University of Malaysia (2010, 2012), Universitas Brawijaya (2017) and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (2018) in Indonesia, and Palacky University Olomouc in the Czech Republic (2018). He is currently coordinating the BRIN LDE Academy for Smart, Healthy and Sustainable Urbanisation.
He has contributed to blogs and radio programs. In 2017 and 2018 Bart was invited to act as a curator and academic advisor for the Europalia Indonesia biennale.
Together with Prof. Ariel Heryanto (Australian National University) and Prof. Merlyna Lim, he is currently the managing editor of Southeast Asia Mediated, a ‘KITLV Verhandelingen series’ that is published by Brill Publishers. He also acts as an external expert on Brill’s ethics committee.
Research
Bart’s research focuses on the postcolonial musical heritage of Muslim Southeast Asia, Islam and new emergent technologies, with a persistent focus on the theme of digital diversity.
As for his explorations into musical heritage, Bart has recently worked with Margaret Kartomi (Monash University, Melbourne) and Rina Martiara (ISI Yogyakarta) in the Australian Research Council’s Project on Revitalising the Musical Arts of Indonesia’s Lampung Province. This ethnographic project aimed to document how and to what extent one indigenous group in the post-Suharto era of regional autonomy in Indonesia is improving its status through affirmative political action based on its traditional musical arts, philosophy and Islamic beliefs. With Wayne Modest (Research Centre for Material Culture) and Anette Hoffmann (Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien), Bart also worked on the Resonating Pasts, a small research which investigated the potential of missionary and museum collections, and their possible role in rewriting colonial histories. This theme was also touched upon in the open access publication Recollecting Resonances (Brill 2014, with Els Bogaerts).
From 2010 until mid-2015 Bart co-coordinated the NWO Articulation of Modernity project. In this transdisciplinary project, anthropologists, historians and musicologists studied how new media technologies have impacted the domain of popular and everyday culture in Southeast Asia throughout the 20th century. As part of this project a digital library with Southeast Asian music recordings was established at the Leiden University Libraries, which can be found and listened to here. It also resulted into the open access publication Sonic Modernities in the Malay World, the edited volume Female Voices of Asian Modernities (University of Hawaii Press, 2017 with Andrew Weintraub) and the book Banal Beats, Muted Histories (AUP, 2017 with Peter Keppy and Henk Schulte Nordholt). Bart’s sub-project - soon to be published as single-authored monograph - studied Islamist musicians and activists who use digital affordances such as Instagram and WhatsApp for proselytizing and reaching new audiences.
Over the years Bart has developed his own line of research specialising in the theme of digital diversity. From 2010 to 2014 he was as a Senior Researcher involved in the NWO project ‘The Future is Elsewhere’, comparing digital futures in Europe and North America, Eastern Asia and Southeast Asia, as they appear in ‘science fiction’ and ‘development discourse’. And from 2017 to 2019, Bart co-coordinated Leiden University’s project ‘Critical Approaches to New Asian Media Ecologies’, in which he investigated Islamic ideas of Information society. Both projects served as a stepping stone to the current NWO-Vici project on AI in Islam. Bart presently also co-coordinates an interfaculty, multiannual cooperation between Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Universitas Indonesia, investigating smart healthy and sustainable cities from an interdisciplinary perspective.
NWO-Vici Project One Among Zeroes |0100|
The |0100| Project investigates the Islamic Information Society’s most debated component – artificial intelligence – with multimodal and mixed methods, comparing and contrasting narratives and imagery of AI-religious-futures in the national settings of Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, each with a considerable yet differently positioned Muslim population. It situates ethical dilemmas surrounding algorithms, bots and machine learning by ethnographically and longitudinally observing and interviewing makers and users. Innovatively using a historical analysis of future-making discourse, we probe big and ‘thick’ data in situ and through digital ethnography, and use infographics, animations and comics to both map and represent ‘scripted futures’. |0100| delivers salient ethnographic evidence, as well as an overarching socio-anthropological analysis, of what digital everyday religion is like, how Southeast Asians use AI in everyday life, and how digital technology contributes to exciting societal experiments and ethical dilemmas.
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Vice-dean of Research/ Professor Anthropology of Digital Diversity
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Kloos D., Schmidt L., Westmoreland M.R. & Barendregt B. (Eds.) (2023), Provocative images in contemporary Islam no. Debates on Islam & Society. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
- Barendregt B. (2023), Desert rhythms and Islamic girl groups: making modern music for the Muslim masses in 1970s Southeast Asia. In: Rashid H. & Petersen K. (Eds.), The Bloomsbury handbook of Muslims and popular culture. Bloomsbury Handbooks. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 141-152.
- Wong-A-Foe D., Barendregt B.A. & Lamers M.H. (2023), Exploring AI and islam in Indonesian education: an anthropological inquiry, 2023 international conference on electrical engineering and informatics (ICEEI). International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics 10 October 2023 - 11 October 2023. 2023 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics: IEEE. 1-5.
- Barendregt B. (2021), Diverse digital worlds. In: Geismar Haidy & Knox Hannah (Eds.), Digital Anthropology. London and New York: Routledge. 101-120.
- Grasseni C., Barendregt B.A., Maaker E. de, De Musso F., Littlejohn A.L., Maeckelbergh M.E., Postma M.A. & Westmoreland M.R. (2021), Audiovisual and digital ethnography: a practical and theoretical guide. London: Routledge.
- Barendregt B.A. (2021), Digital ethnography, or 'deep hanging out' in the age of big data. In: Grasseni C., Barendregt B, Maaker E. de, De Musso F., Littlejohn A., Maeckelbergh M., Postma M. & Westmoreland M. (Eds.) Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography. A Practical and Theoretical Guide. . Oxon; New York: Routledge. 168-190.
- Grasseni C., Barendregt B.A., Maaker E. de, De Musso F., Littlejohn A.L., Maeckelbergh M.E., Postma M.A. & Westmoreland M.R. (2021), Audiovisual and digital ethnography at Leiden. In: Grasseni C., Barendregt B.A., Maaker E. de, De Musso F., Littlejohn A.L., Maeckelbergh M.E., Postma M.A. & Westmoreland M.R. (Eds.), Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography; A Practical and Theoretical Guide. London: Routledge. 1-11.
- Barendregt B.A. & Schneider F.A. (2020), Digital Activism in Asia: Good, Bad, and Banal Politics Online, Asiascape: Digital Asia 7(1-2): 5-19.
- Slama M. & Barendregt B. (2018), Online Publics in Muslim Southeast Asia: In Between Religious Politics and Popular Pious Practices, Asiascape: Digital Asia 5(1-2): 3-31.
- Hudson C. & Barendregt B. (2018), Global Imaginaries and Performance in Asia. In: Hudson C. & Barendregt B. (Eds.), Globalization and Modernity in Asia , Performative Moments. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 11-27.
- Barendregt B. (2018), An Islamist Flash Mob in the Streets of Shah Alam, Unstable Genres for Precarious Times. In: Hudson C. & Barendregt B. (Eds.), Globalization and Modernity in Asia , Performative Moments. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 169-194.
- Hudson C. & Barendregt B. (Eds.) (2018), Globalization and Modernity in Asia, Performative Moments. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- De Beurs E. & Barendregt M. (2017), Behandeluitkomsten: bron voor kwaliteitsbeleid in de GGZ. Amsterdam: Boom Uitgevers.
- Barendregt B., Keppy P. & Schulte Nordholt H. (2017), Banal Beats, Muted Histories; Popular Music in Southeast Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Weintraub A.N. & Barendregt B. (2017), Re-Vamping Asia; Women, Music, and Modernity in Comparative Perspective. In: Weintraub A.N. & Barendregt B. (Eds.), Vamping the Stage, Female Voices of Asian Modernities. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 1-39.
- Barendregt B. (2017), Princess Siti and the Particularities of Post-Islamist Pop. In: Weintraub A.N. & Barendregt B. (Eds.), Vamping the Stage, Female Voices of Asian Modernities. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 211-233.
- Barendregt B. (2017), Deep Hanging Out in the Age of the Digital; Contemporary Ways of Doing Online and Offline Ethnography, Asiascape: Digital Asia 4(3): 307-319.
- Barendregt B. (8 November 2017), The Digital Sound of Southeast Asian Islam. [blog entry].
- Weintraub A.N. & Barendregt B. (Eds.) (2017), Vamping the Stage, Female Voices of Asian Modernities. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
- Anonymous (2016), Merenungkan Gema, Perjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda [Merenungkan Gema: Menyimak Warisan Musik Indonesia-Belanda] (translation: Barendregt B.A. & Bogaerts E.M.). In: Barendregt B.A. & Bogaerts E.M. (Eds.), Merenungkan Gema: Menyimak Warisan Musik Indonesia-Belanda. Jakarta: KITLV & Yayasan Pustaka Obor. 1-36.
- Barendregt B.A. & Bogaerts E.M. (2016), Merenungkan Gema: Menyimak Warisan Musik Indonesia-Belanda. Jakarta: KITLV & Yayasan Pustaka Obor.
- Barendregt B. & Hudson C. (2016), Islam's got Talent [Islam's got Talent] (translation: Barendregt B. & Hudson C.). In: Martin F. & Lewis T. (Eds.), Lifestyle Media in Asia: Consumption, Aspiration and Identity. Abingdon Oxon: Routledge. 176-190.
- Barendregt B. (2015), Dara Puspita: Rockin' the Roaring Sixties in Indonesia. In: Shatanawi M. & Modest W. (Eds.), The Sixties: A Worldwide Happening. Amsterdam: Lecturis & Tropenmuseum. 42-53.
- Barendregt B. (2014), Sonic histories in a Southeast Asian context. In: Barendregt B. (Ed.), Sonic Modernities: Popular Music in the Malay World. Leiden: Brill. 1-44.
- Barendregt B. & Bogaerts E. (2014), Recollecting Resonances: Listening to an Indonesian-Dutch Musical Heritage. In: Barendregt B. & Bogaerts E. (Eds.), Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian - Dutch Musical Encounters. Leiden: Brill. 1-30.
- Barendregt B. & Jaffe R. (2014), Tropical Spa Cultures and the Face of a New Asian Beauty. In: Barendregt B. & Jaffe R. (Eds.), Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic. London: Bloomsbury. 145-163.
- Barendregt B. & Jaffe R. (2014), The paradoxes of eco-chic . In: Barendregt B. & Jaffe R. (Eds.), Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic. London: Bloomsburry. 1-16.
- Barendregt B. & Bogaerts E. (Eds.) (2014), Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian Dutch Musical Encounters. Leiden: Brill.
- Barendregt B. (Ed.) (2014), Sonic Modernities in the Malay World. Leiden: Brill.
- Barendregt B. & Jaffe R. (Eds.) (2014), Green consumption: The global rise of eco-chic. London: Bloomsbury.
- Steijlen F. & Barendregt B.A. (2014), Emerging voices from Southeast Asia: Seeing a region in its documentary films, The Newsletter 68: 19-21.
- Barendregt B. (2012), Diverse Digital Worlds. In: Horst H.A. & Miller D. (Eds.), Digital Anthropology. Oxford: Berg. 309-340.
- Barendregt B. (2012), Sonic discourses on Muslim Malay modernity: The Arqam sound, Contemporary Islam 6(3): 315-340.
- Barendregt B. (2011), Pop, Politics and Piety: Nasyid Boy band Music in Muslim Southeast Asia. In: Weintraub A.N. (Ed.), Islam and popular culture in Indonesia and Malaysia. London: Routledge. 235-256.
- Barendregt B. (2011), Tropical Spa Cultures, Eco-chic, and the Complexities of New Asianism. In: Gelman Taylor J. & Dijk K. (Eds.), Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories. Leiden: KITLV Press. 159-192.
- Barendregt B. & Zanten W. van (2011), Popular music in Indonesia; Mass-mediated Fusion, Indie and Islamic music since 1998. In: Langlois T. (Ed.), Non-Western Popular Music (The Library of Essays on Popular Music). Farnham, England / Burlington, USA: Ashgate. 389-435.
- Barendregt B. (2011), Modes of Communication: Web representations and Blogs: Indonesia. In: Joseph S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures. Leiden: Brill Online.
- Barendregt B. (2010), In the year 2020; Muslim futurities in Southeast Asia or the religiously inspired Information Society. In: Universiteit Leiden (Ed.), The Asiascape collection: Essays in the exploration of cyberAsia. Leiden: Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University.. 44-50.
- Barendregt B. (2009), Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia; Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the potential of Islamic techno nationalism. In: Alampay E. (Ed.), Living the information society in Asia. Singapore: Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.. 73-92.
- Barendregt B. (2009), In the year 2020; Muslim futurities in Southeast Asia or the religiously inspired Information Society, IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) (50): 26-27.
- Barendregt B. (2008), Sex, cannibals and the language of cool: Indonesian tales of phone and the modernity, Information Society 24(3): 160-170.
- Barendregt B. (2008), Batanghari sembilan: Cultural landscapes, centres and underground streams in the Southern Sumatran Highlands. In: Santen J. van (Ed.), Development in Place: Perspectives and challenges. Amsterdam: Aksant. 350-376.
- Barendregt B. & Wessing R. (2008), Centred on the source: Hamlets and houses of Kanekes (Baduy). In: Schefold R. & et al. (Eds.), Indonesian houses; Survey of vernacular architecture in western Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press. 551-596.
- Barendregt B. (2008), Introduction: A glimpse of a future Indonesia. In: Djumini T. (Ed.), Indonesian dreams: Reflections on society, revelations of the self / Cermimam masyarakat, pembukaan diri. Jakarta: KITLV Press.
- Barendregt B. & Pertierra R. (2008), Supernatural mobile communication in the Philippines and Indonesia. In: Katz J. (Ed.), Handbook of Mobile Communications Studies. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press. 377-388.
- Barendregt B. (2008), The house that was built overnight. Guidelines on the construction and use of the southern Sumatran rumah uluan. In: Schefold R. & et al. (Eds.), Indonesian houses; Survey of vernacular architecture in western Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press. 429-464.
- Barendregt B., Rich, Asian and all-natural. Inside Indonesia. [blog entry].
- Barendregt B., New directions: A series of articles on popular culture and the arts, editorial to theme issue performing arts and popular culture, ten years after 1998. Inside Indonesia. [blog entry].
- Barendregt B. (2008), The sound of Islam: Southeast Asian boybands, ISIM Review 22: 24-25.
- Barendregt B. (2007), Generasi Jempol ( the finger top generation): Mobile modernities in contemporary Java. DVD (32 minutes). Leiden, Yogyakarta: Institute of social and cultural studies. [film].
- Barendregt B. (2007), The art of seduction: Ritual courtship, performing prostitutes and erotic entertainment, IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) 40(1): 4-5.
- Barendregt B. (2006), A supernatural topography of the Southern Sumatran Highlands, Crossroads 18(1): 113-126.
- Barendregt B. (2006), Mobile modernities in contemporary Indonesia: Stories from the other side of the digital divide. In: Schulte Nordholt H. & Hoogenboom I. (Eds.), Indonesian transitions. Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar. 327-347.
- Barendregt B. (2006), Cyber-Nasyid: Transnational soundscapes in Muslim Southeast Asia. In: Holden T. & Scrase T. (Eds.), Medi@asia: Communication, culture, context. London: Routledge. 171-187.
- Barendregt B. (28 November 2006), Between M-Governance and mobile anarchies. [blog entry].
- Barendregt B. (2006), The art of no-seduction: Muslim boy-band music in Southeast Asia and the fear of the female voice, IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) 40 (10)(March 2006): .
- Barendregt B. (2006), Hoe een Islamitische toekomst klinkt: Zuidoost Aziatische popmuziek en het gebruik van de nieuwe media, ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam 4: 89-93.
- Barendregt B. (Ed.) (2005), Indonesië op een kruispunt: Onderzoek en hedendaagse trends. Leiden: Dep. CA/OS.
- Barendregt B. (7 September 2005), From the realm of many rivers: Memory, places and notions of home in the Southern Sumatran Highlands (Dissertatie, Leiden University). Leiden. Supervisor(s): Schefold R. & Wessing R.
- Barendregt B. & Wessing R. (2005), Tending the spirit's shrine: Kanekes and Pajajaran in West Java, Moussons 8(6): 3-26.
- Barendregt B. (2003), Architecture on the move: Processes of migration and mobility in the South Sumatran highlands. In: Schefold R., Nas P.J.M. & Domenig G. (Eds.), Indonesian Houses. Volume 1: Tradition and transformation in vernacular architecture. Leiden: KITLV Press. 99-132.
- Barendregt B. & Wessing R. (2003), Encountering the authentic: The 'creation' of the Baduy of Banten, West Java, Sundalana 1(1): 85-116.
- Barendregt B.A. (2003), Hanyuik Sarantau, Minangkabau dance theatre. CD. [audio].
- Barendregt B. (2002), Representing the ancient other: Complex stone configurations in some present day Sumatran cultures, : .
- Barendregt B. (2002), The sound of "longing for home": Redefining a sense of community through Minang popular musics, : .
- Barendregt B.A. (2002), The sound of longing for home; Redefining a sense of community through Minang popular musics, Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 158(3): 411-451.
- Barendregt B.A. (2002), Representing the ancient other, Indonesia and the Malay World 30(88): 277-308.
- Barendregt B. & Zanten W. van (2002), Popular music in Indonesia since 1998, in particular fusion, Indie and Islamic music on video compact discs and the internet, Yearbook for traditional music 34: 67-113.
- Barendregt B. (2001), Popular music in Indonesia: Media, power structures, and shifting identities. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: 36th World Conference of the ICTM. [other].
- Zanten W. van & Barendregt B. (2000), Told in heaven to become stories on earth: A study of change in Randai theatre of the Minangkabau in West Sumatra using visual documentation from the 1930s + Documentation book. Leiden: Inst. Soc. & Cult. Stud. & Intern. Inst. for Asian studies.
- Barendregt B.A., The World of Music 41(3): 171-175.
- Barendregt B.A. & Wessing R. (1999), Traditional Houses in Western Indonesia, IIAS Newsletter (Special Issue, The Asia-Pacific War 60 Years On: History and Memory) (20): .
- Barendregt B.A. (1995), Written by the hand of Allah; Pencak silat of Minangkabau, West Sumatra. In: Zanten W. van & Roon M. van (Eds.), Oideion; The performing arts world-wide 2 113-130.
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