Tribal communities in the Malay world
Subtitle: Historical, cultural, and social perspectives
By: edited by Geoffrey Benjamin & Cynthia Chou.
Contributors: Benjamin, Geoffrey.; Chou, Cynthia, 1963-
Publisher: International Institute for Asian Studies; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Leiden, the Netherlands; Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Ethnology -- Southeast Asia.; Indigenous peoples -- Asia, Southeastern.; Tribes -- Asia, Southeastern.; Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Contributors; title: Pronunciation Guide; title: Acknowledgements; label: Chapter 1
title: Cynthia Chou & Geoffrey Benjamin: "Introduction"; label: Chapter 2
title: Geoffrey Benjamin: "On Being Tribal in the Malay World"; label: Chapter 3
title: Annette Hamilton: "Tribal People on the Southern Thai Border: Internal Colonialism, Minorities, and the State"; label: Chapter 4
title: Nathan Porath: "Developing Indigenous Communities into Sakais: South Thailand and Riau"; label: Chapter 5
title: Colin Nicholas: "Organizing Orang Asli Identity"; label: Chapter 6
title: Juli Edo: "Traditional Alliances: Contact between the Semais and the Malay State in Pre-modern Perak"; label: Chapter 7
title: Lye Tuck-Po: "Forest People, Conservation Boundaries, and the Problem of 'Modernity' in Malaysia"; label: Chapter 8
title: Marina Roseman: "Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars"; label: Chapter 9
title: Robert K Dentan: "Against the Kingdom of the Beast: Semai Theology, Pre-Aryan Religion, and the Dynamics of Abjection"; label: Chapter 10
title: Gerco Kroes: "Culture Contact and Semai Cultural Identity"; label: Chapter 11
title: Signe Howell: "'We People Belong in the Forest': Chewong Re-creations of Uniqueness and Separateness"; label: Chapter 12
title: Mariam Ali: "Singapore's Orang Seletar, Orang Kallang, and Orang Selat: The Last Settlements"; label: Chapter 13
title: Lioba Lenhart: "Orang Suku Laut Identity: The Construction of Ethnic Realities"; label: Chapter 14
title: Cynthia Chou & Vivienne Wee: "Tribality and Globalization: The Orang Suku Laut and the 'Growth Triangle' in a Contested Environment"; label: Chapter 15
title: Tenas Effendy: "The Orang Petalangan of Riau and their Forest Environment"; label: Chapter 16
title: Juara R. Ginting: "Inter-group Relations in North Sumatra"; label: Chapter 17
title: Tine G. Ruiter: "State Policy, Peasantization and Ethnicity: Changes in the Karo Area of Langkat in Colonial Times"; label: Chapter 18
title: Reimar Schefold: "Visions of the Wilderness on Siberut in a Comparative Southeast Asian Perpective"; label: Chapter 19
title: Gerard A. Persoon: "Defining Wildness and Wilderness: Minangkabau Images and Actions on Siberut"; label: Chapter 20
title: Jennifer Alexander & Paul Alexander: "Gender and Ethnic Identity among the Lahanans of Sarawak"; title: Index