Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (500 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9789812301673
  • 9789812306104
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.772
LOC classification:
  • GN635
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
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
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789812306104

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

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)