Dr Ian Proudfoot
Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Visiting Fellow, Southeast Asia Centre |
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Qualifications
- 1977, Ph.D. Australian National University, in History of Indian Religion
- 1967, B.A. (O.S.) Australian National University; Honours I; University medal in Indonesian
Academic Awards and Distinctions
- B.A. Australian National University - University medal in Indonesian
Research
Literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth-century Muslim Southeast Asia. Ideologies and genres in classical Malay manuscript literature. History of Southeast Asian Muslim calendars.
Present Appointments
- Reader, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Previous Appointments
- 2002 - 2003 Deputy Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- 2002 - 2003 Deputy Chair, University Admissions Committee, Australian National University
- 2000 Sub-Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- 1994 - 1996 Deputy Chair, University Admissions Committee
- 1993 - 1994 Head, Asian History Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- 1993 Sub-Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- 1990 - 1991 Deputy Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- 1987 Southeast Asia Review Editor, ASAA Review
- 1986 Chair, Southeast Asia Area Studies Committee
- 1981 - 1985 Member, Asian Studies Committee, ASAA
- 1978 - 1980 Sub-Dean, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Publications
Books
- The Print Threshold in Malaysia Clayton: Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Working Paper 88, 69pp (1994)
- Early Malay Printed Books Kuala Lumpur: The Academy of Malay Studies and the Library, University of Malaya, xxvi, 858pp (1993)
- Concordance to Hikayat Inderaputera: A Complete Lemmatized Concordance with Indexes and Frequency Tables Malay Concordance Project,Australian National University, 914pp (1900)
- The Hikayat Pelanduk Jenaka: Malay Myth and Oral Composition Department of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, ANU, (mimeographed), 257pp (1967)
Monographs
- Ahimsa in a Mahabharata Story Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra,Asian Studies Monographs no.9. 268pp (1987)
Book Chapters
- The Malay Writing Tradition in Indonesian Heritage Series: Languages and Literatures (with V. Hooker), ed. J. McGlynn, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.22-23 (1998) *From Manuscript to Print in Indonesian Heritage Series: Languages and Literatures ed. J. McGlynn, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.46-47 (1998) *Chinese Manuscript Literature in Indonesian Heritage Series: Languages and Literatures (with A. Kumar), ed. J. McGlynn, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.38-39 (1998)Historical Foundations of Hinduism in Indonesian Heritage Series: Religion and Ritual (ed. J. Fox), Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.42-43 (1998)
- Historical Foundations of Buddhism in Indonesian Heritage Series: Religion and Ritual (ed. J. Fox), Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.50-51 (1998)
- Ta'rikh (historiography) sec.3 Indonesia and Malaysia in The Encyclopaedia of Islam new edition, Leiden: Brill, [1960-1997] (1997)
- Mass Producing Houri's Moles, or Aesthetics and Choice of Technology in Early Muslim Book Printing in Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought and Society ed. P. Riddell and A. Street, Leiden: Brill, pp.161-184. [Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, vol 28.] (1997)
- Mediating Time and Space: The Malay Writing Tradition in Illuminations. The Writing Traditions of Indonesia (with V.Hooker), A. Kumar and J. McGlynn (ed.), New York: Weatherhill, pp.49-78 (1996)
- A Legacy of Two Homelands: Chinese Manuscript Tradition in Illuminations. The Writing Traditions of Indonesia (with A.Kumar), A.Kumar and J. McGlynn (ed.), New York: Weatherhill, pp.201-212 (1996)
- The Decline of the Manuscript Tradition in Illuminations. The Writing Traditions of Indonesia A. Kumar and J. McGlynn (ed.), New York: Weatherhill, pp.253-256 (1996)
- Penang in Encyclopaedia of Islam Leiden: E.J. Brill (1993)
- The Early Indianized States of Southeast Asia: Religion and Social Control in Indonesia: Australian Perspectives J.J. Fox et al. (eds.), Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra, pp.151-162 (1980)
Journal Articles
- Translating Indian calendars in Java in Histoire de la traduction en Indonesie et en Malaisie project of Ecole francaise de l'Extreme-Orient, led by Henri Chambert-Loir (forthcoming)
- An expedition into the politics of Malay philology in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Malaysian Branch, vol.76, pt.1 pp.1-553 (2003)
- The Ethnic Background to the Malayan Emergency in Air Power and Wars of National Liberation ed. Wing-Commander K. Brent,Proceedings of the 2002 RAAF History Conference, Canberra: RAAF Historical Section, Aerospace Centre, pp.109-116 (2003)
- From Recital to Sight-reading: the Silencing of Texts in Malaysia in Indonesia and the Malay World vol.30 no.87, pp.117-144. [Also to appear in J. Walker (ed.) A New Order of Things: Literature and Modernity in Southeast Asia, Sydney / Honolulu: Allen and Unwin / Hawaii University Press] (July 2002)
- A 'Chinese' mousedeer comes to Paris in Archipel (Paris), no.61, pp.69-97 (2001)
- Malays toying with Americans: the rare voices of Malay scribes in two Houghton Library manuscripts in Harvard Library Bulletin New Series vol.11 no. 1, [2001], pp.54-69 (Spring 2000)
- Malay Materials in the Houghton Library, Harvard in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), jil.19 bil.1, pp.1-14 (2000)
- Lithography at the Crossroads of the East in Journal of the Printing Historical Society no.27, pp.113-131 (1998)
- New Technologies and New Perspectives in Indonesian Heritage Series: Early Modern History ed. A.J.S Reid, Singapore: Editions Didier Millet, pp.128-29 (1998)
- Robinson Crusoe in Indonesia in Asia-Pacific Magazine nos.6 and 7, pp.42-48 (1997)
- Early Muslim Printing in Southeast Asia in Libri (Copenhagen), vol.45, pp.216-223 (1995)
- Malay Books printed in Bombay: a report on sources for historical bibliography in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), vol.13 no.3, pp.1-20 (September 1994)
- Concordances and Classical Malay in Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde (Leiden), vol.147, pp.74-95 (1991)
- Major Library Holdings of Early Malay Books in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), vol.8 no.1, pp.7-17 (1989)
- A Nineteenth Century Bookseller's Catalogue in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), vol.6 no.4, pp.1-11 (1987)
- A Formative Period in Malay Book Publishing in Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society vol.59 no.2, pp.101-132 (1986)
- Pre-War Malay Periodicals in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), vol.4 no.4, pp.1-28 (1985)
- A Pioneer Publisher in Palembang in Kekal Abadi (Kuala Lumpur), vol.1 no.4, pp.14-18 (1985)
- Malay Lithographs collected by T.J. Chamberlain (with A. Dalby (ed.) and Ibrahim bin Ismail, Cambridge Univesity Library, typescript,10pp (1984)
- Variation in a Malay Folk-Tale Tradition in Review of Indonesian and Malayan Studies (Sydney and Leiden), vol.18, pp.87-102 (1984)
- Interpreting Mahabharata Episodes as Sources for the History of Ideas in Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia Bangkok, 1979, vol.2, pp.1168-1193; also in 'Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute', vol. 60, pp.41-63 (1979)
- The Evolution of the Ahimsa Ideal: One Case History in Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Orientalists Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, (abstract), pp.125-126 (1976)
- Economic and Social Background to Changes in Indian Religion in The Modern Review vol.121, pp.337-346 (1967)
Webpages
- Course material: Useful links for Malaysia
- Malay Concordance Project Search over a million words of classical Malay texts
- About calendar conversion programs Background to the calendars
- Calendar conversion program - Takwim Converts between the Javanese, Muslim and Christian calendars
- Calendar conversion program - AHAD calendar conversion program
Software and Digital
- Lemmatised Text of Hikayat Inderaputera, a Classical Malay Romance, with notes Oxford Text Archive, Oxford Computing Centre, 1280K (1990)
- Takwim [a Macintosh application which interactively converts and reconstructs dates and numerological cycles in 28 variant calendars of the Western, Muslim and Javanese eras], with User's Guide, Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra. 51K and 59pp. (1987)
- AHAD [a Macintosh Pascal application which interactively converts Western and Muslim dates], released through ANU Apple Consortium.25K. (1986)
Grants
- 1999: [$3,350] Faculties Research Fund Divination and early Muslim calendars in the Malay world (fieldwork)
- 1997-1998 : [$7,3000] ARC Large Grant Literacy and the roots of modernity in nineteenth-century Indonesia and Malaysia
- 1989-1990: [$3,286] Faculties Research Fund Classical Malay concordance project (pilot)