Tribal Communities in the Malay World : : Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives / / ed. by Geoffrey Benjamin, Cynthia Chou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Jennifer,; Alexander, Paul,; Ali, Mariam,; Benjamin, Geoffrey,; Chou, Cynthia,; Dentan, Robert K.,; Edo, Juli,; Effendy, Tenas,; Ginting, Juara R.,; Hamilton, Annette,; Howell, Signe,; Kroes, Gerco,; Lenhart, Lioba,; Nicholas, Colin,; Persoon, Gerard A.,; Porath, Nathan,; Roseman, Marina,; Ruiter, Tine G.,; Schefold, Reimar,; Tuck-Po, Lye,; Wee, Vivienne,
• HerausgeberIn: Benjamin, Geoffrey,; Chou, Cynthia,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)

The Malay World (Alam Melayu), spanning the Malay Peninsula, much of Sumatra, and parts of Borneo, has long contained within it a variety of populations. Most of the Malays have been organized into the different kingdoms (kerajaan Melayu) from which they have derived their identity. But the territories of those kingdoms have also included tribal peoples — both Malay and non-Malay — who have held themselves apart from those kingdoms in varying degrees. In the last three decades, research on these tribal societies has aroused increasing interest. This book explores the ways in which the character of these societies relates to the Malay kingdoms that have held power in the region for many centuries past, as well as to the modern nation-states of the region. It brings together researchers committed to comparative analysis of the tribal groups living on either side of the Malacca Straits — in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. New theoretical and descriptive approaches are presented for the study of the social and cultural continuities and discontinuities manifested by tribal life in the region.

Table of Contents

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