Tribal communities in the Malay world : historical, cultural and social perspectives

Tribal communities in the Malay world : historical, cultural and social perspectives

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin, Geoffrey (Author), Chou, Cynthia , 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ; Leiden : International Institute for Asian Studies , 2002
Subjects:
Ethnology > Southeast Asia
Indigenous peoples > Southeast Asia
Tribes > Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia > Ethnic relations
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Cynthia Chou, Geoffrey Benjamin
  • 2. On being tribal in the Malay world / Geoffrey Benjamin
  • 3. Tribal people on the southern Thai border: internal colonialism, minorities, and the state / Annette Hamilton
  • 4. Developing indigenous communities into sakais: South Thailand and Riau / Nathan Porath
  • 5. Organizing Orang Asli identity / Colin Nicholas
  • 6. Traditional alliances: contact between the Semais and the Malay state in pre-modern Perak / Juli Edo
  • 7. Forest people, conservation boundaries, and the problem of "modernity" in Malaysia / Lye Tuck-Po
  • 8. Engaging the spirits of modernity: the Temiars / Marina Roseman
  • 9. Against the Kingdom of the Beast: Semai theology, pre-Aryan religion, and the dynamics of abjection / Robert K. Dentan
  • 10. Culture contact and Semai cultural identity / Gerco Kroes
  • 11. "We people belong in the forest": Chewong re-creation of uniqueness and separateness / Signe Howell
  • 12. Singapore's Orang Seletar, Orang Kallang, and Orang Selat: the last settlements / Lioba Lenhart
  • 13. Orang Suku Laut identity: the construction of ethnic realities / Lioba Lenhart
  • 14. Tribality and globalization: the Orang Suku Laut and the "Growth Triangle" in a contested environment / Cynthia Chou and Vivienne Wee
  • 15. The Orang Petalangan of Riau and their forest environment / Tenas Effendy
  • 16. Inter-group relations in North Sumatra / Juara R. Ginting
  • 17. State policy, peasantization and ethnicity: changes in the Karo Area of Langkat in colonial times / Tine G. Ruiter
  • 18. Visions of the wilderness on Siberut in a comparative Southeast Asian perspective / Reimar Schefold
  • 19. Defining wildness and wilderness: Minangkabau images and actions on Siberut (West Sumatra) / Gerard A. Persoon
  • 20. Gender and ethnic identity among the Lahanans of Sarawak / JenniferAlexander and Paul Alexander

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