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] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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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