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Full-Text Articles in History
The Homo Floresiensis Controversy, Robert Cribb
The Homo Floresiensis Controversy, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
The 2004 announcement of the discovery of a new species of hominin in the form of sub-fossil remains from Liang Bua cave in Flores aroused immediate excitement and controversy. The discovery attracted sceptical attention from dissenting palaeontologists. The sometimes acrimonious debate addressed the relative importance of apparently archaic and apparently modern features of the remains.
The Indonesian Revolution: Archives And Emotions, Robert Cribb
The Indonesian Revolution: Archives And Emotions, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Discusses the possibility that archival materials can be used to create a sense of emoptional commonality between current generations and earlier ones.
Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Nature Conservation And Cultural Preservation In Convergence: Orang Pendek And Papuans In Colonial Indonesia, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
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A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb
A Genocide That Never Was: Explaining The Myth Of Anti-Chinese Massacres In Indonesia, 1965–66, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Many publications refer incorrectly to extensive massacres of Chinese in Indonesia in 1965–66. Approximately half a million people were killed in this period, but the victims wereoverwhelmingly members and associates of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). Chinese Indonesians experienced serious harassment but relatively few were killed. The persistence of this myth is attributed to a trope dating back to the seventeenth century which equates the social position of Chinese in Indonesia with that of Jews in Europe and which thus predicts periodic pogroms and attempts at genocide. The myth has survived partly because it inspires a sense of urgency in …