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

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 territor...

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Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (500 p.)
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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