Aceh: Art and Culture.

The Journal of the American Oriental SocietyVol. 119 Nbr. 4, October 1999

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Aceh: Art and Culture.

Aceh: Art and Culture. By HOLLY S. SMITH. Kuala Lumpur: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997. Pp. xi + 75. $24.95.

There can be few parts of Indonesia that exhibit a greater or a more colorful diversity of historical influence than Aceh, fewer still more porous to external cultural pressure, and none in which the religion of the Prophet has occupied a position of greater centrality in quotidian life and in the popular imagination. A coveted source of pe...

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