Tribal Communities in the Malay World
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Tribal Communities in the Malay World

Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives

  1. 500 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Tribal Communities in the Malay World

Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives

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Information

Publisher
ISEAS Publishing
Year
2002
eBook ISBN
9789812306104
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. On Being Tribal in the Malay World
  6. 3. Tribal People on the Southern Thai Border: Internal Colonialism, Minorities, and the State
  7. 4. Developing Indigenous Communities into Sakais: South Thailand and Riau
  8. 5. Organizing Orang Asli Identity
  9. 6. Traditional Alliances: Contact between the Semais and the Malay State in Pre-modern Perak
  10. 7. Forest People, Conservation Boundaries, and the Problem of “Modernity” in Malaysia
  11. 8. Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars
  12. 9. Against the Kingdom of the Beast: Semai Theology, Pre-Aryan Religion, and the Dynamics of Abjection
  13. 10. Culture Contact and Semai Cultural Identity
  14. 11. “We People Belong in the Forest”: Chewong Re-creations of Uniqueness and Separateness
  15. 12. Singapore’s Orang Seletar, Orang Kallang, and Orang Selat: The Last Settlements
  16. 13. Orang Suku Laut Identity: The Construction of Ethnic Realities 293 Lioba Lenhart 14 Tribality and Globalization: The Orang Suku
  17. 14. Tribality and Globalization: The Orang Suku Laut and the “Growth Triangle” in a Contested Environment
  18. 15. The Orang Petalangan of Riau and their Forest Environment
  19. 16. Inter-group Relations in North Sumatra
  20. 17. State Policy, Peasantization and Ethnicity: Changes in the Karo Area of Langkat in Colonial Times
  21. 18. Visions of the Wilderness on Siberut in a Comparative Southeast Asian Perpective 422
  22. 19. Defining Wildness and Wilderness: Minangkabau Images and Actions on Siberut (West Sumatra)
  23. 20. Gender and Ethnic Identity among the Lahanans of Sarawak
  24. INDEX