| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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William Cummings. Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 257. $45.00.

In this study of the transition from an oral to a literate culture in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, William Cummings explores the forces underpinning the cultural and social transformations that took place in the early modern period. Although this period marks the beginning of indigenous interaction with European colonial and commercial concerns, the author has chosen to retell his story through indigenous rather than European sources and to focus on history making as practice rather than recounting narrative events. The choice is a significant and important one. Cummings questions the consensus among historians of early modern Southeast Asia that commercial activities were the driving force in the social and political transformations that took place during this period. Instead, he argues for the crucial role of cultural forces and cultural meanings. . . .

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