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West, Alexander Joseph (2017)

Bujangga Manik: An Old Sundanese Topogeny?

Master thesis | Asian Studies (60 EC) (MA)
Bujangga Manik is a fifteenth-century story from Sundanese-speaking West Java about an ascetic who travels around Java and Bali before ascending to heaven. Its central narrative trope, of narrating the ascetic's journey through a recitation of place names, has no clear parallels in South Asian literature, and I argue that it derives from an ancient Malayo-Polynesian tradition, similar to what the anthropologist J. J. Fox named the 'topogeny'. I attempt to show this through a dissection of Bujangga Manik and detailed comparison with ethnographic data from the Malayo-Polynesian-(Austronesian-)speaking world.
Old Sundanese
philology
Indonesia
medieval
literature
Austronesian
topogeny
anthropology
Author
West, Alexander Joseph
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Southeast Asian Studies
Supervisors
Arps, Bernard
ECTS Credits
15
Language
en