The late Professor Schrieke (1890-1945) is perhaps best known to social scientists outside Indonesia and the Netherlands for the survey he made in the early 1930,s of race relations in the United States, Alien Americans. The major part of Schrieke's work was concentrated on the Indonesian area, however. Although in his studies in that field he was in many respects a pioneer, applying the sociological method to the investigation of Indonesian topics past and present, all but a few of those studies have up to now remained
accessible only to the scholar with a command of Dutch. In this volume, designed to alleviate that situation, are included a brief general article on acculturation and three of Schrieke's chief studies on special aspects of acculturation in Indonesia. Covering topics ranging in time from the sixteenth century to the present, these writings together constitute an important and valuable contribution to Indonesian social and economic history and sociology.