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  - 115 results

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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
...whose origins are in the equally tiny volcanic and coral islands of Banda located to the south of the large island of Seram. Of these spices it was the clove which was highest valued. Among the local inhabitants it was both a delicacy and a remedy...
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Environmentalism: The View from Anthropology
Book by Kay Milton; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Applied Anthropology, Environmental Policy, Human Ecology
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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
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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
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Understanding Witchcraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia
Book by C. W. Watson, Roy Ellen; University of Hawaii Press, 1993
Subjects: Magic--Asia, Southeastern, Witchcraft--Asia, Southeastern
...and Sorcery: An Analysis of Some Nuaulu Case Material from Seram, Eastern Indonesia ROY ELLEN 81...not necessarily reflect lines of social tension. Nuaulu on Seram will, in general terms, speak of various outgroups as having...
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journal articles on: Seram  - 40 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...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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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...various sizes and shapes. In Ambon, Uliase, Seram, Buru and elsewhere in central Maluku...
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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...rock art sites in central Maluku (Buru and Seram islands), although no intensive modern...the islands of Ambon, Buru, Saparua, and Seram, with Latinis conducting follow-up surveys...
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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
...Lease, West Ambonese Islands, and Southwest Seram (see Map). Based on a combination of geographical...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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The Good Behind the Gift: Morality and Exchange among the Maneo of Eastern Indonesia
Journal article by James M. Hagen; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999
Subjects: Civilization--Philosophy, Ethics--Social aspects, Indonesia--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Moral and ethical aspects
...by James M. Hagen The Maneo of Seram live in a region in eastern Indonesia famous...settlements in the mountains of central Seram with populations of between 50 and 125...transfers among non-Maneo on the south coast of Seram, there is some possibility of marriage...
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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
...exists 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 in north...
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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
...time. 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 the world...
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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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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
...focus 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 insist...


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Christians Terrorized by Laskar Jihad
Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, December 17, 2001
...either 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 been ferried...
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Wonder of My Flight of Fancy
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 17, 2001
...down 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, over New...
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Sports Digest
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 5, 2000
...A 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 flies...


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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 the Moluccas...
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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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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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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 chief...
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Moluccas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Guinea. The capital of the province is Ambon, on Ambon island. The groups many islands include Halmahera (the largest), Seram , Buru, Ambon , Ternate , and Tidore and the Aru and Kai island groups. Of volcanic origin, the Moluccas are mountainous...
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