Between tourist and traveller; The Reverend Marius Buys in the Preanger (1887-1890)

This article presents a post-colonial analysis of the travel account and guidebook of Marius Buys (1837-1906). As a minister of religion, Buys travelled in several parts of the Netherlands East Indies, including Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi, in the years 1878-1885. His health forced him to return Netherlands in 1885, but he went back to the Indies in 1886. He was posted to Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Java. In May 1887 was he posted in Bandung, West Java (the Preanger regencies), where he remained until his definitive return to the Netherlands in 1890. As a result of his service in the Preanger reg... Mehr ...