1
Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies: Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there, and of the Author’s Miraculous Escape : exemplars
Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East-Indies: Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now Living there, and of the Author’s Miraculous Escape : exemplars
Creator:
Knox, Robert, 1640?-1720
Publication Date:
1681
Publisher:
Printed by Richard Chiswell
Type:
Artifact
Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:
British -- Sri Lanka -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800
Sri Lanka -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Sri Lanka -- Social life and customs -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800
ஆப்பிரிக்கா -- இலங்கை
අප්රිකාව -- ශ්රී ලංකා
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Sri Lanka
Language:
English
2
Letter from Quamina, Satin, Bristol, Asaar and Moses Chisholm, 14 December 1817, Plantation Success, Demerara
Letter from Quamina, Satin, Bristol, Asaar and Moses Chisholm, 14 December 1817, Plantation Success, Demerara
Creator:
Quamina ( Author, Primary )
Satin ( contributor )
Bristel ( contributor )
Assar ( contributor )
Chisholm, Moses
Publication Date:
1817
Type:
Mixed Material
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Religious life
Slaves
Slaves -- Religious life
Spatial Coverage:
South America -- Guyana -- Demerara-Mahaica -- Georgetown
Language:
English
3
Singular proclamation
Singular proclamation
Creator:
Foo-yuen, or Sub-Viceroy, of Canton ( Author, Primary )
Morrison, Robert, 1782-1834 ( Translator )
Staunton, George Thomas, Sir, 1781-1859 ( Translator )
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ( Contributor )
Publication Date:
1824
Publisher:
Cox and Baylis, printers to the Royal Asiatic Society ( London )
Type:
Book
Format:
7 p.
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:
China -- Politics and government -- History -- 19th century
中国 -- 政治与政府 -- 历史 -- 19世纪
中國 -- 政治與政府 -- 歷史 -- 19世紀
China -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century
中国 -- 社会生活与风俗习惯 -- 历史 -- 19世纪
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- China -- Guangdong -- Guangzhou
亚洲 -- 中国 -- 广东 -- 广州
亞洲 -- 中國 -- 廣東 -- 廣州
Language:
English
4
Christian devotedness, or the consideration of our Saviour's precept - "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth"
Christian devotedness, or the consideration of our Saviour's precept - "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth"
Publication Date:
1829
Publisher:
Reprinted at the Church Mission Press
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
ஆசியா -- இந்தியா -- தமிழ்நாடு -- சென்னை மாவட்டம் -- சென்னை
Property -- Religious aspects
Charity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Conduct of life
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- Tamil Nadu -- Chennai District -- Chennai
5
Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills; their social customs and religious rites from the rough notes of a German missionary
Tribes inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills; their social customs and religious rites from the rough notes of a German missionary
Creator:
O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895 ( Editor )
Metz, J. Franz ( Contributor )
Publication Date:
1856
Publisher:
publisher not identified ( Madras )
Type:
Book
Format:
124 p.
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
Manners and customs
Nilgiri Hills (India) -- Social life and customs
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Tamil Nadu -- Nilgiri Mountains
Asia -- Tamil Nadu -- Chennai District -- Chennai
एशिया - तमिलनाडु - नीलगिरि पर्वत
एशिया - तमिलनाडु - चेन्नई जिला - चेन्नई
Language:
English
6
Life of Franklin in Bengali : ফ্রাঙ্কলিন চরিতা
Life of Franklin in Bengali : ফ্রাঙ্কলিন চরিতা
Creator:
Rāẏa, Prasanna Candra ( Author, Primary )
Raya, Prasanna Candra
Publication Date:
1865
Publisher:
The New Sanskrit Press
Type:
Book
Format:
65 p. ; 19 cm
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
এশিয়া -- ভারত -- পশ্চিমবঙ্গ -- কলকাতা জেলা -- কলকাতা
एशिया -- भारत -- पश्चिम बंगाल -- कोलकाता जिला -- कोलकाता
Benjamin Franklin -- History -- Statesmen and scientists -- 19th c -- Bengal
Bengali non-fiction -- Biography -- Life and works -- 19th c -- Bengal
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- West Bengal -- Kolkata District -- Kolkata
Genre:
Biographies (LCGFT)
Language:
Bengali
7
Social life of the Chinese : A daguerrotype of daily life in China
Social life of the Chinese : A daguerrotype of daily life in China
Creator:
Doolittle, Justus ( Author, Primary )
Hood, Edwin Paxton, 1820-1885 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1868
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Son and Marston
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Colelctions
Subject Keyword:
China -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century
Fujian (China) -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century
中國 -- 社會生活與風俗 -- 歷史 -- 19世紀
福建(中國) -- 社會生活風俗 -- 歷史 -- 19世紀
中国 -- 社会生活与风俗 -- 历史 -- 19世纪
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- China -- Fujian
Language:
English
8
The foreigner in far Cathay
The foreigner in far Cathay
Creator:
Medhurst, Walter Henry, 1796-1857 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:
1872
Publisher:
Edward Stanford
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
China -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century
Visitors, Foreign -- China -- History -- 19th century
亚洲 -- 中国
中国 -- 社会生活与风俗 -- 历史 -- 19 世纪
外国游客 --中国 -- 历史 -- 19世纪
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- China
Language:
English
9
Recuerdos de Filipinas : cosas, casos y usos de Aquellas Islas ; vistos, oidos, tocados y contados
Recuerdos de Filipinas : cosas, casos y usos de Aquellas Islas ; vistos, oidos, tocados y contados
Creator:
Cañamaque y Jiménez, Francisco de Paula, 1851-1891
Publication Date:
1879
Publisher:
Carlos Bailly-Bailliere ( Madrid )
Type:
Book
Format:
2 v.
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
SOAS, University of London
Subject Keyword:
Philippines -- Social life and customs
Pilipinas -- Panlipunan buhay at kaugalian
Filipinas -- Vida social y costumbres
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Philippines
Asia -- Filipinas
Asya -- Pilipinas
Language:
Spanish
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نفحة اليمن فيما يزولو بذكره الشجن
نفحة اليمن فيما يزولو بذكره الشجن
Creator:
شرواني، احمد بن محمد،‏
Aḥmad, Kabīr al-Dīn
Shirwānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1837 or 1838
Publication Date:
1881
Publisher:
مطبعة اوردو بريس ( كلكتا )
Urdu Guide Press ( Calcutta )
Type:
Book
Format:
276 pages : ; 23 cm
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Arabic literature -- Collections
Ethics -- Early works to 1800
Religious life -- Islam -- Early works to 1800
Ethics
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India -- West Bengal -- Presidency -- Kolkata -- Kolkata
Genre:
non-fiction (marcgt)
Early works to 1800 (lcsh)
Language:
Arabic
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Japonica
Japonica
Creator:
Arnold, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904 ( Author, Primary )
Blum, Robert Frederick, 1857-1903 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1891
Publisher:
James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, & Co.
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
Japan -- Description and travel
Japan -- Social life and customs
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Japan
Language:
English
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O Oriente e a América : apontamentos sobre os usos e costumes dos povos da India portugueza comparados com os do Brazil ; memória apresentada à X sessão do Congresso Internacional dos Orientalistas
O Oriente e a América : apontamentos sobre os usos e costumes dos povos da India portugueza comparados com os do Brazil ; memória apresentada à X sessão do Congresso Internacional dos Orientalistas
Creator:
Lopes Mendes, António, 1835-1894
Publication Date:
1892
Publisher:
Imprensa Nacional ( Lisboa )
Type:
Book
Format:
125 pages
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
Sociedade de Geographia de Lisboa
Manners and customs
Brazilians -- Social life and customs
East Indians -- Social life and customs
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- Portuguese India
Asia -- India
South America -- Brazil
Ásia -- Índia Portuguesa
Ásia -- Índia
Language:
Portuguese
13
Gaina sûtras : part 2, the Uttaradhyayana sutra, the Sutrakritanga sutra
Gaina sûtras : part 2, the Uttaradhyayana sutra, the Sutrakritanga sutra
Creator:
Jacobi, Hermann, 1850-1937 ( Translator )
Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1895
Publisher:
Clarendon Press
Type:
Book
Format:
xli, [iii], 456 pages; 23 cm
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Jainism -- Sacred books
Jaina Āgama
Monastic and religious life (Jainism)
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- India
Language:
English
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Hausaland : or, Fifteen hundred miles through the central Soudan
Hausaland : or, Fifteen hundred miles through the central Soudan
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1861-1925 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:
1896
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston and Company
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
Hausa (African people) -- Social life and customs
Hausa (Mutanen Afirka) -- Rayuwar zamantakewa da al'adu
West Africa -- Voyages and travels
Yammacin Afirka -- Voyages da balaguro
Afirka -- Sudan
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Sudan
Language:
English
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Hausaland : or, Fifteen hundred miles through the central Soudan
Hausaland : or, Fifteen hundred miles through the central Soudan
Creator:
Robinson, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1861-1925 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:
1897
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston and Company
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
Hausa (African people) -- Social life and customs
Hausa (Mutanen Afirka) -- Rayuwar zamantakewa da al'adu
West Africa -- Voyages and travels
Yammacin Afirka -- Voyages da balaguro
Afirka -- Sudan
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Sudan
Language:
English
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As the Chinese see us
As the Chinese see us
Creator:
Selby, Thomas G. (Thomas Gunn), 1846-1910 ( Author, Primary )
Publication Date:
1901
Publisher:
T. Fisher Unwin
Type:
Book
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Subject Keyword:
China -- Social life and customs -- History -- 20th century
China -- Description and travel
China -- Foreign relations -- History -- 20th century
Europeans -- China -- History -- 20th century
亚洲 -- 中国
Spatial Coverage:
Asia -- China
Language:
English
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Children, women, and men looking into a tent
Children, women, and men looking into a tent
Creator:
Sims, John, 1862?-1927 ( Photographer )
Gregory, William Edward, 1878-1930 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1908
Type:
Photograph
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Antananarivo -- Bongolava -- Tsiroanomandidy
Afrique -- Madagascar -- Tananarive -- Bongolava -- Tsiroanomandidy
Sakalava (Malagasy people)
Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Social life and customs
Tents
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Madagascar -- Antananarivo -- Bongolava -- Tsiroanomandidy
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'Sakalava Governor and wife, Ankavandra'
'Sakalava Governor and wife, Ankavandra'
Creator:
Sims, John, 1862?-1927 ( Photographer )
Gregory, William Edward, 1878-1930 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1908
Type:
Photograph
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Mahajanga
Afrique -- Madagascar -- Majunga
Sakalava (Malagasy people)
Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Social life and customs
Governors
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Madagascar -- Mahajanga
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'Pounding rice, seated woman with winnowing tray'
'Pounding rice, seated woman with winnowing tray'
Creator:
Sims, John, 1862?-1927 ( Photographer )
Gregory, William Edward, 1878-1930 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1908
Type:
Photograph
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Mahajanga
Afrique -- Madagascar -- Majunga
Sakalava (Malagasy people)
Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Social life and customs
Rice
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Madagascar -- Mahajanga
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'Pounding rice, Sakalava 1908, seated woman holding winnowing tray'
'Pounding rice, Sakalava 1908, seated woman holding winnowing tray'
Creator:
Sims, John, 1862?-1927 ( Photographer )
Gregory, William Edward, 1878-1930 ( contributor )
Publication Date:
1908
Type:
Photograph
Source Institution:
SOAS University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Subject Keyword:
Afrika -- Madagasikara -- Mahajanga
Afrique -- Madagascar -- Majunga
Sakalava (Malagasy people)
Sakalava (Malagasy people) -- Social life and customs
Rice
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Madagascar -- Mahajanga