Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Balinese Keris Exhibition in Hollenstedt, Germany

A. G. Maisey · 30th August 2016, 02:11 PM

I understood what you meant about the pics Jean, no problems there.

I doubt that I'll see the catalogue Jean. What you say about the contents I find disappointing, so I'm most certainly not going to waste my money on a book that is riddled with error on something as simple as the thing we have been discussing.

I have seen a parade of books about keris over the last 20 years or so.

A parade.

All waving their multi-coloured flags and all babbling on about irrelevancies.

Lots of pretty pictures of things that the authors do not seem to have even the smallest understanding of.

The foundations of my own knowledge came from a man who never wrote a book.

But his constant criticism was this:-

"If somebody wants to write about keris, why don't they learn about keris before they start to write?"

I've felt the same way for a long time now.

30th August 2016, 02:11 PM	#27
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,697	I understood what you meant about the pics Jean, no problems there. I doubt that I'll see the catalogue Jean. What you say about the contents I find disappointing, so I'm most certainly not going to waste my money on a book that is riddled with error on something as simple as the thing we have been discussing. I have seen a parade of books about keris over the last 20 years or so. A parade. All waving their multi-coloured flags and all babbling on about irrelevancies. Lots of pretty pictures of things that the authors do not seem to have even the smallest understanding of. The foundations of my own knowledge came from a man who never wrote a book. But his constant criticism was this:- "If somebody wants to write about keris, why don't they learn about keris before they start to write?" I've felt the same way for a long time now.