CHAPTER X: Aceh histories in the KITLV images archive

Abstract

In Aceh, survivors of the tsunami have to confront the sudden, massive loss of people and of their history. This chapter introduces the Images Archive of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV Images Archive) at Leiden as a repository that offers the possibility of recovering traces of Aceh?s past. It considers the Aceh photographs in comparison with other photographs stored in the KITLV Images Archive that were taken in the same time period at other locations around the archipelago. The chapter describes the materials in the archive from Aceh, after brief remarks on using photographs as research tools for understanding the region?s complex history. It briefly surveys the histories of Aceh, and discusses how their dominant themes of war and resistance have influenced the selection of items for visual representations of Aceh in the photograph and art books of Indonesia. Keywords: Aceh histories; Indonesian archipelago; KITLV Images Archive

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