The Malays
Just who are 'the Malays'? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical, 'Malay' context
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, Massachusetts ; Garsington Road, Oxford :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2011
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| Series: | Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Thinking about 'the Malays' and 'Malayness'
- 2. Early histories: Engaging India and Islam
- 3. The Sultanates
- 4. A 'Malay' of Kerajaan World?
- 5. Experiencing colonialism, and the making of the Bahasa Melayu
- 6. Building 'Malays' into the Nation States
- 7. Multiple forms of 'Malayness'
- 8. Ethnicity, civilization and the fear of the 'disappearing from this world'