May 1976
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 5
The Raffles Gamelan
Dating Annamese Ware
George Orwell’s Burma
Vietnam: Face of Peace
Cover. The magic of a regal gamelan lies almost as much in the mystic shapes of its instruments as in the music those instruments produce. In style and workmanship, one of the most splendid gamelan ensembles in the West remains that brought to England from Java by Sir Stamford Raffles and now in the collection of the British Museum. On our cover is a detail of one of the magnificent lacquered, gilded and crowned birds that forms the crossbar of the great gong ageng, centerpiece of the gamelan, pictured in full on page 24. Courtesy of the British Museum.
FEATURES
Melinda Liu. Trespassing in the Pear Garden
William David. On the Horns of a Dilemma
Saigon: A Sort of Peace
Nigel Cameron. Play, Gamelan, Play
Robert P. Griffing, Jr. Dating Annamese Blue and White
Annette Eberly. Burma and the Greening of Orwell
Khakhar’s “India Pop”
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Jean Richards. “No Thanks, Water Will Do,”
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest by John Nance
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 5
The Raffles Gamelan
Dating Annamese Ware
George Orwell’s Burma
Vietnam: Face of Peace
Cover. The magic of a regal gamelan lies almost as much in the mystic shapes of its instruments as in the music those instruments produce. In style and workmanship, one of the most splendid gamelan ensembles in the West remains that brought to England from Java by Sir Stamford Raffles and now in the collection of the British Museum. On our cover is a detail of one of the magnificent lacquered, gilded and crowned birds that forms the crossbar of the great gong ageng, centerpiece of the gamelan, pictured in full on page 24. Courtesy of the British Museum.
FEATURES
Melinda Liu. Trespassing in the Pear Garden
William David. On the Horns of a Dilemma
Saigon: A Sort of Peace
Nigel Cameron. Play, Gamelan, Play
Robert P. Griffing, Jr. Dating Annamese Blue and White
Annette Eberly. Burma and the Greening of Orwell
Khakhar’s “India Pop”
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Jean Richards. “No Thanks, Water Will Do,”
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest by John Nance
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 7 - NUMBER 5
The Raffles Gamelan
Dating Annamese Ware
George Orwell’s Burma
Vietnam: Face of Peace
Cover. The magic of a regal gamelan lies almost as much in the mystic shapes of its instruments as in the music those instruments produce. In style and workmanship, one of the most splendid gamelan ensembles in the West remains that brought to England from Java by Sir Stamford Raffles and now in the collection of the British Museum. On our cover is a detail of one of the magnificent lacquered, gilded and crowned birds that forms the crossbar of the great gong ageng, centerpiece of the gamelan, pictured in full on page 24. Courtesy of the British Museum.
FEATURES
Melinda Liu. Trespassing in the Pear Garden
William David. On the Horns of a Dilemma
Saigon: A Sort of Peace
Nigel Cameron. Play, Gamelan, Play
Robert P. Griffing, Jr. Dating Annamese Blue and White
Annette Eberly. Burma and the Greening of Orwell
Khakhar’s “India Pop”
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Jean Richards. “No Thanks, Water Will Do,”
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest by John Nance
NEWS
Discoveries