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A Borneo Childhood: Enculturation in Dusun Society - Thomas Rhys Williams
A Borneo Childhood:... Enculturation in Dusuan Society... -... Thomas Rhys Williams... This work summarises the work of the author and his wife in trying to discover how aboriginal Dusun children in North Borneo grew up and took on the cultural norms of their society. During their two year stay in two...
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A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine - John D Gimlette & HW Thomson
A Dictionary of Malayan Medicine... by... John D Gimlette & HW Thomson... Gimlette, one of the pioneers of Western medicine in the Malayan Peninsula, never lived to see this book published. It was completed by Thomson, his colleague and friend, from notes prepared for the book. One of the many...
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A Malay Peasant Community in Upper Perak - Wan Hashim
A Malay Peasant Community in Upper Perak... --... Wan Hashim... Hashim based his study on the peasant community in Kampong Ulu Kenderong where he sought to determine how this traditional society interacted with post independence changes and what changes, if any, were brought about in the village... 192 pages including appendix...
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A Malay Village and Malaysia - Peter J. Wilson
A Malay Village and Malaysia:... Social Values and Rural Development... by... Peter J. Wilson... This is an anthropological study of a rubber tapping community in Jandram Hilir in Selangor, West Malaysia. Its main focus is how such a community interacts with the outside world. In its 171 pages the author...
Price: $13.00
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A Share of the Harvest - Peletz, Michael Gates
A Share of the Harvest:... Kinship, Property and Social History Among the Malays of Rembau... --... Peletz, Michael Gates... Published by University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520080867... Condition: Paperback... Powered by
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Area, Development Policy, and the Middle City in Malaysia - James Osborn
Area, Development Policy, and the Middle City in Malaysia... -... James Osborn... National development is a major issue for almost all countries in the world including Malaysia. The central government plays an important role in encouraging and supervising such development. The questions raided by this study are: What is the relationship...
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Borneo People - Malcolm MacDonald
Borneo People... -... Malcolm MacDonald... This classic account of the writer's visit to Borneo just around the time of independence includes history, ethnography and anecdote all written in an entertaining style. The book includes 44 black and white illustrations of the country and the people whom the author met. The 376...
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Broker, Mediator and Kinsman - Conner BAILEY
Broker, Mediator and Kinsman:... An Historical Analysis of Key Leadership Roles in a Rural Malaysian District... --... Conner BAILEY... This study analyses of howkey leadership roles played out in Sik a rural Malaysian district in Kedah.The data was collected between1968-1971 and updated in 1974... 79 pages including glossary, bibliography...
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Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia - Andrew C. Willford
Cage of Freedom:... Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia... -... Andrew C. Willford... New. Anthropological research amongst Malaysia's Indian community is thin on the ground, compared to similar research amongst the country's other ethnic groups, and is usually conducted by researchers of Indian origin. Willford's topic is fairly challenging...
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Chinese Minority in A Malay State - Tan Chee-Beng
Chinese Minority in A Malay State:... The Case of Terengganu in Malaysia... by... Tan Chee-Beng... This is a timely study of a Chinese community which has not had too much attention in the past, both the 'pure' Chinese and the Peranakan, or mixed, Chinese minorities in a state dominated...
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Class, Race and Colonialism in West Malaysia: The Indian Case - Michael Stenson
Class, Race and Colonialism in West Malaysia:... The Indian Case... -... Michael Stenson... The author originally thought that his best approach to understanding Malaysian society would be to start by studying its component racial parts. He soon discovered that the idea of homogenous Indian, Chinese or Malay groups was a misnomer...
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Histories, Cultures, Identities: Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds - Sharon A. Carstens
Histories, Cultures, Identities:... Studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds -... -... Sharon A Carstens... New. After more than 25 years studying the Chinese Malaysian community, Carstens has drawn together various elements of her published work in this wide ranging and infomative book. All of the papers return to two principal questions - 1 - How...
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In Borneo Jungles: Among the Dyak Headhunters - William O Krohn
In Borneo Jungles: Among the Dyak Headhunters - William O Krohn... An American forensic surgeon, who travelled to Borneo in 1920s to collect ethnological specimens for the Chicago Museum of Natural History, provided this first-hand account of the Dyak tribe of Borneo
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Indian Transmigrants: Malaysian and Comparative Essays - Ravindra K Jain
Indian Transmigrants:... Malaysian and Comparative Essays... --... Ravindra K Jain... New. Jain, a scholar specialising on the Indian diaspora, particularly the section that emigrated from Tamil Nadu to Malaysia, updates his earlier work 'South Indians on the Plantation Frontier in Malaya' in this wide ranging selection of his fieldwork based essays...
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Keranda: Tradisi & Misteri/Cofffins: Traditions & Mysteries - Muzium Negara
Keranda/Cofffins:... Tradisi & Misteri/Traditions & Mysteries... by... Muzium Negara... This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue, bilingual in Malay and English, takes the reader on a tour of coffins and death rituals principally of Malaysia, but also of some neighbouring countries as well. The diversity of customs and beliefs of...
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King Siliman and other Bidayuth Folk Tales - Robert Sulis Ridu and Others
King Siliman... and... Other Bidayuth Folk Tales... -... Robert Sulis Ridu, Ritikos Jitab... and... Jonas Noeb... This 138-page book is a collection of ten Bidayuh folk tales by different writers in Bidayuh (the original version) and English (the translated version). There are pictures and captions which are used to illustrate...
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Kuala Lumpur Under Cover - Ewe Paik Leong
Kuala Lumpur Under Cover... --... Ewe Paik Leong... In Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, from the backstreet of Chow Kit Road to the modern Sultan Ismail Road, ladies from all ages and ethnicities wander in the dark alleys, clubs and massage parlours. Ewe Paik Leong uncovers the hidden world of the karaoke...
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Local Politics in Rural Malaysia: Patterns of Change in Sungai Raya - Marvin L Rogers
Local Politics in Rural Malaysia:... Patterns of Change in Sungai Raya... by... Marvin L Rogers... Fascinated by the Southeast Asian politics, the author was particularly interested in the political perceptions and activities of villagers in Southeast Asia. In this book, he examined the patterns of political involvement in a Malay...
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Main Peteri (Malay Shamanism) - Carol Laderman
Main Peteri... (Malay Shamanism)... --... Carol Laderman... Laderman combines a review of Western literature on Malay Shamanism, also known as main peteri,with the results of her time spent with Malay shamans in the late 1980s.. The book is divided into 2 parts: (i) An introduction to Malay Shamanism and (ii)...
Price: $23.00
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Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu - MG Swift
Malay Peasant Society in Jelebu... by... MG Swift... This work, a revised Ph.D thesis, mainly seeks to study the workings of the matrilineal system of kinship prevalent in Negeri Sembilan at the time of the research. Swift particularly looks at how this system copes with the patrilineal system of...
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Malay Peasant Women and the Land - Maila Stivens, Cecilia Ng & Others
Malay Peasant Women and the Land... by... Maila Stivens, Cecilia Ng, Jomo Kwame Sundaram & Jahara Bee... This study by a team of national and international academics looks at Malay women's role in the agricultural sector of the Malaysian economy, particularly as to how their property ownership and their role...
Price: $66.00
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Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Phillipines - Charles Robequain
Malaya, Indonesia, Borneo and the Phillipines:... A Geographical, Economic and Political Description of Malaya, the East Indies and the Philippines... by... Charles Robequain... This work, although published more than half a century ago, arguably remains one of the standard colonial geographic text books for the region. It certainly sets a...
Price: $20.00
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