Dr Ian Proudfoot

Dr Ian Proudfoot was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University's School of Culture, History and Language. His main research interests included literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth-century Muslim Southeast Asia; Classical Malay manuscript literature and philology; early Malay divination and time-reckoning, calendars, and the idea of Malay science. Dr Proudfoot published numerous books and articles on the above topics. His life's work culminated with the Malay Concordance Project, a massive corpus of texts from Classical Malay literature which can be searched for words and phrases. This project aims to help scholars share resources for the study of classical Malay literature. It is regularly consulted by scholars from around the world. Dr Proudfoot passed away in 2011.
Type
Party
Party Type
person
Access Privileges
The Australian National University Library
Title
Dr
Given Name
Ian
Surname
Proudfoot
NLA Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-482020
Birth Year/Date
1946
Death Year/Date
2011
Brief Description
Dr Ian Proudfoot was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University's School of Culture, History and Language until his death in 2011. His areas of research included Classical Malay literature and philology, and other aspects of Muslim Southeast Asian literature and history.
Full Description
Dr Ian Proudfoot was Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University's School of Culture, History and Language. His main research interests included literacy, printing, and colonial education in nineteenth-century Muslim Southeast Asia; Classical Malay manuscript literature and philology; early Malay divination and time-reckoning, calendars, and the idea of Malay science. Dr Proudfoot published numerous books and articles on the above topics. His life's work culminated with the Malay Concordance Project, a massive corpus of texts from Classical Malay literature which can be searched for words and phrases. This project aims to help scholars share resources for the study of classical Malay literature. It is regularly consulted by scholars from around the world. Dr Proudfoot passed away in 2011.
Email Address
ea.chl@anu.edu.au
Postal Address
School of Culture, History & Language ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Building 9, H.C. Coombs Building
Phone Number
+61 2 6125 6364
Website Address
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/people/personal/proudfootian.php
Fields of Research
200314 - South-East Asian Languages (excl. Indonesian); 200406 - Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology); 200519 - South-East Asian Literature (excl. Indonesian); 210302 - Asian History
Socio-Economic Objective
950502 - Understanding Asia's Past; 970120 - Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
Keywords
Asian literature; Asian studies; Classical Malay; colonialism; literature; Malay; Malay calendar; Malay history; Malay language; Malay literature; Malay philology; printing; Southeast Asia
Status: Published
Published to:
  • Australian National University
  • Australian National Data Service
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