SERAM

formerly Ceramboth: sāˈräm, island, c.6,600 sq mi (17,100 sq km), E Indonesia, W of New Guinea, second largest of the Moluccas; also called Seran or Serang. Its chief port and town is Masohi. Traversed by a central mountain range rising to 9,905 ft (3,019 m) at Mt. Binaiyi, the island is c.210 mi (340 km) long and c.40 mi (60 km) wide. The interior has dense rain forests and is largely unexplored. Copra, resin, sago, and fish are important products. Oil is exploited in the northeast near Bula. Portuguese missionaries were active there in the 16th cent. Dutch trading posts were opened in the early 17th cent., and the island came under nominal Dutch control c.1650.

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books on: Seram  - 123 results

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Voyages of Discovery: The Archaeology of Islands
Book by Scott M. Fitzpatrick; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Island Ecology--Congresses, Island People--History--Congresses, Islands--History--Congresses, Prehistoric Peoples--Congresses, Social Archaeology--Congresses
...trading round to the neighboring island of Seram in 1998, I watched his extremely skillful...job, which was to buy sago cheaply in Seram and sell it for a higher price in Banda...He traded within a system of villages in Seram that had historical and mythical links...
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European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its Dependencies
Book by Frances Gardiner Davenport; Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government, Treaties, United States--History--Sources
...mercadaria per autoridade de justica, onde seram achados, ate que seja conhecido e verificado...8. E iguaes certeficacoes acima ditas seram dadas e expedidas pelo embaixador do dito...os portos e avras del Rey de Portugal seram franquos e livres de todas as presas dantre...
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The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period
Book by Leonard Y. Andaya; University of Hawaii Press, 1993
Subjects: Maluku (Indonesia)--History
...those from Tidore, the Gamrange, Geser, Seram Laut, Uring on Hitu , and the Ternaten subjects from Tobelo. Among the people of Seram , those most inclined toward him were from...Jodi. Someone from the Keta settlement on Seram was made syahbandar, an elder from Kilitai...
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Epigrams
Book by Craig A. Williams, Martial; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Epigrams, Latin, Epigrams, Latin--Translations Into English, Martial--Translations Into English
...private matter. 2 ambulator porticum terit seram: It was a common habit to take strolls...14.51.2 lintea . The phrase porticum seram is unusual, probably poetic in tone...as here and at 6.89.1 cum peteret seram media iam nocte matellam , a static object...
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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 14
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...Malayo-Polynesian, Central Maluku, East, Seram, Nunusaku, Three Rivers, Amalumute, Northwest Seram, Lllat Inai. 17,243: Indonesia (Maluku...Malayo-Polynesian, Central Maluku, East, Seram, Nunusaku, Piru Bay, East, Seram Straits...
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journal articles on: Seram  - 42 results

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On the Contemporary Uses of Colonial History and the Legitimation of Political Status in Archipelagic Southeast Seram
Journal article by Roy Ellen; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 28, 1997
Subjects: Ambon Island, Indonesia--History, Colonies--History, Political culture--Analysis
...political status in archipelagic Southeast Seram. by Roy Ellen When the independent government...administrative sub-district (kecamatan) of Seram Timur, part of the regency (kabupaten...drawn from the Statistik Tahunan Kecamatan Seram Timur for that year, and in some cases...
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Cave Use Variability in Central Maluku, Eastern Indonesia
Journal article by D. Kyle Latinis, Ken Stark; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Caves--Discovery and exploration, Caves--History, Caves--Usage, Excavations (Archaeology)--Indonesia, Indonesia
...north Buru), the Hatusua site (southwest Seram), and several cave sites on the northern...art sites in central Maluku (Buru and Seram islands), although no intensive modern...islands of Ambon, Buru, Saparua, and Seram, with Latinis conducting follow-up surveys...
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Is Maluku Still Musicological 'Terra Incognita'? an Overview of the Music-Cultures of the Province of Maluku
Journal article by Margaret J. Kartomi; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 25, 1994
Subjects: Indonesia--Music, Musicology--Research
...contains the "mother island" (nusa ina) of Seram which Maluku people believe to be the original...northern Maluku; Ambon, the Uliase islands, Seram, Buru and Banda islands in central Maluku...sizes and shapes. In Ambon, Uliase, Seram, Buru and elsewhere in central Maluku...
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The Demography of Ambon in the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from Colonial Proto-Censuses
Journal article by Gerrit Knaap; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 26, 1995
Subjects: Ambon Island, Indonesia--Demographic aspects, Demographic surveys--Indonesia, Indigenous peoples--Indonesia
...West Ambonese Islands, and Southwest Seram (see Map). Based on a combination of...the Bay of Kayeli are meant. Southwest Seram includes the coastal strip of land between...administrative division of the time, Southwest Seram is divided into three regions. These regions...
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Distribution and Variation in Sago Extraction Equipment: Convergent and Secondary Technologies in Island Southeast Asia
Journal article by Roy Ellen; Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: Agricultural implements--Social aspects, Agricultural implements--Usage, Agricultural tools--Social aspects, Agricultural tools--Usage, Sago--Social aspects, Social history--Analysis, Social sciences and history--Analysis, Southeast Asia--Social aspects
...Moluccas (especially on Halmahera, Buru, Seram and Ambon-Lease, Bacan, Sula and Obi...wood (Figure 2). In Piliana (central Seram) in 1975, I observed and measured a pounder...wood pounders of this type from south Seram (Figure 6) are rare, and the whole can...
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magazine articles on: Seram  - 4 results

 
 
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Another Year of Living Dangerously?
Magazine article by Rajan Menon; The National Interest, Fall 2001
Subjects: Economic history--Indonesia, Ethnic relations--Indonesia, Indonesia--Economic aspects, Indonesians--Social aspects, Megawati Sukarnoputri--Political activity, Religion--Political aspects, Suharto--Political activity
...to bring order. The melee of sectarian carnage has been particularly gruesome in Ambon (the capital) and on Halmahera and Seram islands. As many as 10,000 have died, and some 500,000 others have been chased from their homes, many becoming refugees...
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Reading the Archipelago
Magazine article by Alan Cheuse; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Fall 2002
Subjects: Borneo--Portrayals, Conrad, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation, Exoticism, Literary techniques, Literary themes, Literature--Themes, motives, Maugham, W. Somerset--Criticism and interpretation
...Sukarno government, a remarkable aesthetic event was slowly building in a prison camp on the Moluccan island of Buru in the Seram Sea to the west of Sulawesi and north of Timor, more than a thousand miles from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. The Java...
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Golden Tomb Fit for a Queen
Magazine article by John S. Lapolla; Natural History, Vol. 115, May 2006
Subjects: Entomology, Fossils, Insects, Paleontology, Resins, Trees
...For example, one genus of ant, Leptomyrmex which lives today only in eastern Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Seram, in Indonesia, has been discovered inside Domimcan amber. Leptomyrmex, therefore, must have lived on the other side of...
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Practicing Faith under Fire
Magazine article by Catherine Edwards; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, May 28, 2001
Subjects: Christians--Religion, Ethnic relations--Analysis, Indonesia--Religious aspects, North Korea--Religious aspects, Persecution--Cases, Sudan--Religious aspects
...its energies," he says. "We cant be involved in everything." Forced Islamization continues. In the Moluccan islands of Seram, Bacan and Buru, 4,000 Christians have reported being forced to convert to Islam. And human-rights groups in Washington...


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Sports Digest
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 5, 2000
...Ranatunga, M Atapattu, R Arnold, M Muralitharan, U Chandana, R Kaluwitharana, P Wickramasinghe, C Vaas, C de Silva, I de Seram, I Gallage, T Dilshan, P Jayawardene, R Herath, N Perera, U Fernando, K Sangakkara, R Pushpakumara, N Zoysa. Leslie...
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Christians Terrorized by Laskar Jihad
Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, December 17, 2001
...with scissors or dirty knives, then told to disinfect their wounds in the sea. Christians trapped on islands like Bacan, Seram, Doi, Jibubu, Sekele, Paspalele and Lata-Lata have appealed to be rescued from forced Islamization. Some 2,700 have...
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Wonder of My Flight of Fancy
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 17, 2001
...coast and through to Jakarta, across the Java Sea and Flores Sea to southern point of Sulawesi, into Banda Sea to Haja on Seram, on to Irian Jay, down north side of Pegunungan Mountains into Papua New Guinea, over mountains (13,000 ft ) to Lae...


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encyclopedia articles on: Seram  - 6 results

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Seram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SERAM formerly Ceram both: sa ram, island, c.6,600 sq mi (17,100 sq km), E Indonesia, W of New Guinea, second largest of...
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Seran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SERAN or Serang: see Seram , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Islands, consisting of Bali , Flores , Sumba , Lombok , and the western part of Timor ; the Moluccas (Maluku), with Ambon , Seram , and Halmahera ; and the Riau Archipelago . After years of dispute with the Dutch, W New Guinea (now Papua and West Papua...
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Kai Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KAI ISLANDS or Kei Islands both: ki, island group (c.550 sq mi/ 1,420 sq km), E Indonesia, SE of Seram, in the Banda Sea, in the Moluccas . It is densely forested with valuable timber; the people are skilled boat builders. The...
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Ceram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CERAM island, Indonesia: see Seram . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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