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This book gives you a new experience of knowledge: the facts of modern science hidden behind the cultural wealth of the archipelago's traditions.
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Enigma Pusaka
Traces of Science in the Cultural Treasury of Nusantara
It follows the traces of knowledge inside myth, folklore, textile motifs, and regional cooking, on the assumption that each of them holds rules that can be examined.
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What's inside
What's inside.
The discussion moves between disciplines as the material demands, from archaeology and linguistics through to mathematics and computation.
Published in the same series as Kode-Kode Nusantara, with a wider range of material.
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From the publisher.
Examining, tracing, and going deep into the nature of the archipelago is a long Indonesian effort to know itself better. The beauty and variety of culture across these islands hold an abundance of enigmas — riddles, codes.
The codes of meaning and philosophy carried in the aesthetics and taste of cultural expression are a great inheritance from the people of this archipelago, centuries old. As heirs, we still have the chance to wipe the dust and rust off the “vault” that holds it.
Like a labyrinth in a wilderness of culture, inside every myth, folk tale, batik pattern, and blend of spices sit codes that time has kept secret. In this book Hokky Situngkir and his team set out to read, study, and finally break those codes, and bring them to the surface.
Why read it
Why you should read this book.
It invites us to explore the evolutionary well-being of humankind, one generation to the next.
Dissecting the artistic and cultural life of our ancestors through modern science and technology also reveals a collection of intelligences born collectively, in tradition.
An absorbing scientific mystery
It carries you on an unforgettable adventure through modern knowledge, while solving mysteries that have stayed hidden for centuries.
Cultural illumination
You get a deep view of how modern knowledge and the cultures of the archipelago come together in an unexpected beauty.
Knowledge you won't find elsewhere
Find the little-known facts about this region, and how their influence built a remarkable civilisation.
On the same shelf
On the same shelf.
Enigma Pusaka
Traces of science in Nusantara