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This thesis is an attempt to describe the class structure in the Prijangan-regencies in West Java, at approximately the turn of the century. Lack of available material has limited this thesis in many respects. It is also realized that a study of clase structure pursued on the spot, where more reliable measurements and greater detail can be used, would be more satisfactory and render grater validity. It is the writer's intention to make a study of the clase structure of a Sundanese community when she returns to Indonesia.' To be able toy do this, she is convinced that certain knowledge of what it was before is indispensable; it is the intention that Ms thesis should provide. such a background. Studies of clase structure in Indonesia have been attempted by vary few Dutch scholars.l While Javanese ar, language and literature have bern studied intensively, class etructre has been dealt with only superficially. It is a well-known fait that in Java among the Javanese and the Sundanese a distinction eisted between the people H. J. Friedericy, De Standen bijde Bo1inezen en Nakassaren, Bi jdr .gen tot de Taal, Land en Volkenknde, vol. 90 (1933), pp. 448-602. In this book he discussed atlength the origin, the symbols of the aristocracy and the comon people among the Bugi¬nese and Makassarese in Celebes. Dr. H. Th. Chabot, Verti rantschEp Stang en aexe in Zuid Celebes, (Groningen/Djakarta.: J. B. Wolters) 5'50 |
