Abstract
ALTHOUGH both the authors of this volume have a first-hand knowledge of the indigenous peoples of the Dutch East Indies, they do not claim to have attempted more than compilation. The result of their labour is, nevertheless, welcome to English readers, among whom a knowledge of the Dutch language, in which the copious literature dealing with the antiquities, culture and peoples of these islands for the most part has appeared, is either non-existent or far from profound. A reference to the extensive bibliography of the works upon which they have drawn for their material will show how very extensive this literature has come to be. To a great extent, the bar of language has been responsible for the fact that the position of the Javanese in the ethnology of Indonesia and as a link extending from New Guinea to the Malay Peninsula has received less consideration than its importance warrants.
Sumatra
Its History and People, by Edwin M. Loeb.; The Archaeology and Art of Sumatra, by Robert Heine-Geldern (Vol. 3 of Wiener Beiträge zur Kultur-geschichte und Linguistik des Institutes für Völker-kunde der Universität Wien.) Pp. ix + 350 + 40 plates. (Wien: Verlag des Institutes f¨r Völkerkunde der Universität, 1935.) 23 Österr. schillings; 4.40 dollars.
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Sumatra. Nature 136, 664 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136664c0
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