Koleksi Raffles Dari Jawa: Bukti Dari Eropa Tentang Sebuah Peradaban by Alexandra Green

“…I compared the types of objects in the collections with Raffles’ writings, as well as the writings of his contemporaries on Java and Sumatra in the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society. Raffles was one of the first people to apply the enlightenment notion of systematic collecting to cultural material, but his collections were not systematized by Javanese standards, indicating his incomplete understanding of the local culture. …”
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