From Majapahit to Putrajaya: The Kris as a Symptom of Civilizational Development and Decline
@article{Noor2000FromMT, title={From Majapahit to Putrajaya: The Kris as a Symptom of Civilizational Development and Decline}, author={Farish A. Noor}, journal={South East Asia Research}, year={2000}, volume={8}, pages={239 - 279} }
The kris is the legendary weapon of the Malay peoples, used throughout the archipelago. This paper examines the evolution of the kris over the centuries. The central argument is that in the development of the kris we can also trace the civilizational development of the Malays. The paper sets the evolution of the kris in the context of social–cultural and political change in the Malay archipelago from the fourteenth century to the present, focusing on, for example, the close association of the…
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