Other Malays

Other Malays
Title Other Malays PDF eBook
Author Joel S. Kahn
Publisher NUS Press
Pages 260
Release 2006
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9789971693343

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This simulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, religious reform, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia.

The Cocos Malays

The Cocos Malays
Title The Cocos Malays PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Herriman
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 212
Release 2022-10-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3031107470

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Looking at the past from an anthropological perspective, this book deploys and analyses a variety of anthropological concepts to understand the history of Cocos Malay society. Around 400 Cocos Malays reside on their remote Indian Ocean atoll, the Cocos Islands. Possessing a unique culture and dialect, they could be considered Australia's oldest Muslim and oldest Malay group. Yet their society only developed over the past two centuries. In the early 1800s, a European gathered about one hundred slaves from around Southeast Asia. After settling on Cocos, a dynasty of rulers tried to distinguish themselves as European kings. Under them, the Southeast Asians in the group toiled in the export of coconuts. But despite this, these Southeast Asians influenced and intermarried with the rulers. As a result, a Eurasian society developed. The Cocos Malays were initially implicated in Southeast Asian and wider Indian Ocean trade and communication networks. Later, this connectivity intensified through technologies such as telegraph cable and the Internet. This book uses the history of the Cocos Malays to explore questions of broader interest to anthropologists, such as how concepts from the overlap of history and anthropology ‘unlock’ the history of societies; how we can usefully combine the ‘indigenous’ concepts like “kerajaan” with internationally accepted concepts like class; and what is obscured when we use the concepts from the anthropology-history crossover to understand the past.

Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays

Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays
Title Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays PDF eBook
Author P. Sloane
Publisher Springer
Pages 233
Release 1998-11-23
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0230372082

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The book is based on original research on the entrepreneurial leaders in the Malay community and on the author's own participation in Malay business ventures. Sloane draws on her experience of working in Wall Street to analyse the ironies and contradictions in both the prevailing Western, Asian and Malay definitions of entrepreneurship and the 'heroes' of competing styles of capitalism.

The Malays

The Malays
Title The Malays PDF eBook
Author Anthony Milner
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 312
Release 2009-03-30
Genre History
ISBN 1444305107

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Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study posesthe question and considers how and why the answers have changedover time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner developsa sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical,‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensiveexamination of the origins and development of Malay identity,ethnicity, and consciousness over the past five centuries. Covers the political, economic, and cultural development of theMalays Explores the Malay presence in Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia,Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, as well as themodern Malay show-state of Malaysia Offers diplomatic speculation about ways Malay ethnicity willdevelop and be challenged in the future

Area Handbook for Malaysia

Area Handbook for Malaysia
Title Area Handbook for Malaysia PDF eBook
Author Nena Vreeland
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 1977
Genre Malaysia
ISBN

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General study of Malaysia - covers historical and geographical aspects, population, ethnic groups, languages, social structure, religion, living conditions, education, culture and mass media, politics and government, international relations, the economic structure, agriculture and industry, trade, the armed forces, the administration of justice, etc. Bibliography pp. 399 to 432, flow charts, glossary, maps and statistical tables.

Singapore Malays

Singapore Malays
Title Singapore Malays PDF eBook
Author Hussin Mutalib
Publisher Routledge
Pages 226
Release 2012
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0415509637

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"The Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book provides an analysis of the debates on religion, politics and citizenship of Malay Muslims in contemporary Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their disadvantaged circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social mobility, and freedom of religious expression."--Publisher's description.

The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality

The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality
Title The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality PDF eBook
Author Humairah Zainal
Publisher Routledge
Pages 208
Release 2021-12-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000521443

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Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective. How do Malays in Singapore and Malaysia conceptualise and negotiate their ethnic identity vis-à-vis the state’s construction of Malay national identity? Humairah and Kamaludeen employ discourse analyses of both elite and mass texts that include newspaper editorials, school textbooks, political speeches, novels, movies, and letters in local newspapers. Extending current notions of Malay identity, the authors offer a comprehensive overview of Malay identity that takes into consideration both primordial dimensions and the more modern aspects such as their cosmopolitan sensibilities and their approach to social mobility. A valuable resource for scholars of Southeast Asian culture and society, as well as Sociologists looking at wider issues of ethnic and national identity.