This collective volume contains papers and comments on these papers from an international symposium on "e;Indonesia as a Field of Anthropological Study"e; held in Leiden, 22-26 November 1982. The following contributions are listed: P.E. de Josselin de Jong, "e;A field of anthropological study in transformation"e; (with comments by G.B. Milner) / Robert Blust, "e;Indonesia as a 'Field of Linguistic Study'"e; / A. Teeuw, "e;Indonesia as a 'Field of Literary Study'. A case study: genealogical narrative texts as an Indonesian literary genre"e; (with comments by Els Postel) / Sandra Niessen, "e;Textiles are female... but what is femaleness? Toba Batak textiles in the Indonesian field of ethnological study"e; (with comments by Wolfgang Marschall) / David S. Moyer, "e;South Sumatra in the Indonesian Field of Anthropological Study"e; (with comments by C.W. Watson) / J.J.J.M. Wuisman, "e;The Rejang and the Field of Anthropological study concept"e; (with comments by William D. Wilder) / Peter J.M. Nas, "e;Settlements as symbols: The Indonesian town as a Field of Anthropological Study"e; / Hans-Dieter Evers, "e;Cities as a 'Field of Anthropological Studies' in South-East Asia"e; / R. Hagesteijn, "e;Continental Southeast Asian political myths compared"e; / J.D.M. Platenkamp, "e;The Tobelo of Eastern Halmahera in the context of the Field of Anthropological study"e; (with comments by Cecile Barraud) / L.E. Visser, "e;Who are the Sahu and what do they belong to?"e; (with comments by E.K.M. Masinambow) / Rodney Needham, "e;The transformation of prescriptive systems in Eastern Indonesia"e; / P.E. de Josselin de Jong, "e;Summary and conclusions"e;