Other Malays

by Kahn, Joel S.

• ISBN13: 9780824831073
• ISBN10: 0824831071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity, and nationalism in multiethnic Southeast Asia. The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationalists, writers, and filmmakers in the late colonial period associated Malayness with the village

Author Biography

Joel S. Kahn is a Professor of Anthropology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Maps	viii
List of Appendix Tables	ix
List of Appendix Figures	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xxiv
Chapter 1 Making Race and Place in Colonial Singapore	1	(28)
Chapter 2 Commerce, Migration and Settlement: Making the Modern Malay World	29	(48)
Chapter 3 In Search of Other Narratives: Diaspora, Islam, Reform	77	(30)
Chapter 4 Popularising Nationalism	107	(27)
Chapter 5 Race, Nation and the Spatial Order of Modernity	134	(24)
Chapter 6 Universalism, Hybridity, Cosmopolitanism	158	(19)
Appendices	177	(9)
Notes	186	(18)
Bibliography	204	(17)
Index	221