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A Baba Malay Dictionary - William Gwee Thian Hock
A Baba Malay Dictionary... -... William Gwee Thian Hock... One of the great joys of spoken language is the clues the language gives to the speakers' way of life. Baba Malay, the language spoken by by descendants of early Chinese immigrants to the Malay peninsula who intermarried with Malays, is no...
Price: $16.00
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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...
Price: $32.00
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A Peranakan Legacy - Peter HL Wee
A Peranakan Legacy... -... Peter HL Wee... New. This is probably the best comprehensive, but handy, introduction to Straits Chinese culture on the market. The book doesn't strive to be academic, trying rather to focus mainly on the day to day lifestyle enjoyed by the Peranakans and the domestic items they...
Price: $26.00
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A River of Roses - Rex Shelley
A River of Roses... --... Rex Shelley... New. This novel is part of Shelley's fiction quartet based on the life of Singaporean Eurasians. Although Shelley Shelley started writing late in life he speedily pciked up literary awards for his works. This novel, which won the Singapore Literary Prize, is set in...
Price: $13.00
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A Servant of Sarawak - Peter Mooney
A Servant of Sarawak:... Reminiscences of A Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo... Peter Mooney... New. The author is best known for his distinguished post-independence legal career in Malaysia. However in this book he reminisces about the fascinating early part of his career in Sarawak. It was a time when...
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A Trilingual Phrasebook/Buku Frasa Tiga Bahasa: Ida'an-Bahasa Malaysia-English
A Trilingual Phrasebook/... Buku Frasa Tiga Bahasa: Ida'an-Bahasa Malaysia-English... - <>... David C & Marsha Ann Moody... New. The book is part of the Museum's attempt to preserve Sabah languages and encourage their use. It is also intended to help Ida'an speakers better understand and speak English and...
Price: $20.00
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Beads Of Borneo - Heidi Munan
Beads Of Borneo... by... Heidi Munan... New. Heidi Munan uses her 30 years' experience in being involved in and studying Sarawk culture in this book which has a good balance of stunning photographs and well informed text. Ms Munan's experience as Honorary Curator of Beads at the Sarawk Museum stands...
Price: $26.00
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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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Changing Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands - Poline Bala
Changing Borders and Identities in the Kelabit Highlands... -... Poline Bala... The Kelabit people straddle the international border between Indonesia and Malaysia. Poline Bala, a Kelabit, dicusses the development of political boundary lines, its effect on her people and other significant changes in the Kelabit Highlands. She also reflects on her...
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Chinese Business In the Making Of a Malay State, 1882-1941 - Wu Xio An
Chinese Business In the Making Of a Malay State, 1882-1941 -... by... Wu Xio An... New. The business life of Penang and its neighbouring state, Kedah, would have taken a very different shape had it not been for the activities of Chinese business from the early 19th century onwards.One...
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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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Chinese Muslims in Malaysia - Osman Chuah
Chinese Muslims in Malaysia... by... Osman Chuah... Chuah, a Malaysian of Chinese origin, converted to Islam in his early 30s and has devoted much of his time since then to promoting Islam and to studying the experiences of other Chinese with similar religious experiences. This book is a result of...
Price: $179.00
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Chinese Names - Russell Jones
Chinese Names:... Notes on the Use of Surnames and Personal Names by the Chinese in Malaya... by... Russell Jones... The author carried out research for this work in Penang between 1957 and 1959. For its 84 pages the work is quite extensive covering such aspects as the components of names...
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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...
Price: $35.00
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Colonial Labor Policy and Administration - J. N. Parmer
Colonial Labor Policy and Administration:... A History of Labor in the Rubber Plantation Industry... in Malaya c1900-1941... by... J. Norman Parmer... As the author states in his preface "the basic function of imperial rule...was to establish and maintain conditions under which...capitalism could flourish." So he procedes...
Price: $43.00
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Communalism and the Political Process in Malaya - KJ Ratnam
Communalism and the Political Process in Malaya... -... KJ Ratnam... The period of study concerns the post war period until around about 1960 since, as Ratnam points out in his preface, the onset of the war marked the first real political awakening in the country, especially for non-Malays, who were...
Price: $30.00
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Divide and Rule: The Roots of Race Relations in Malaysia - Colin Abraham
Divide and Rule:... The Roots of Race Relations in Malaysia... -... Colin Abraham... More than 60 years after gaining independence from Britain much of Malaysian life still dances to the racial tunes composed by their former colonial masters. What's interesting about this study is how the author manages to demonstrate that...
Price: $20.00
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Festivals of Malaya - Joy Manson
Festivals of Malaya... - -... Joy Manson... The book arose from a series of lectures given to an ecumenical society in Singapore to foster greater understanding between different religious denominations. The series were so successful that authors who were practicing members of the Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Christian and Jewish faiths were...
Price: $30.00
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Growing up with Ghosts - Bernice Chauly
Growing up with Ghosts... by... Bernice Chauly... New. The author is the daughter of a Punjabi father and Chinese mother, who despite family opposition, married in 1966. The book really tells us how they got to that point and what happened afterwards as Chauly reveals the results of burrowings through...
Price: $13.00
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History of The Dutch in Malaysia - Limited Edition - Dennis De Witt
History of The Dutch in Malaysia... Limited Edition... by... Dennis De Witt... New. The Dutch generally are not top of the pops in The Sweetest Colonisers Charts, especially in countries where they were amongst a succession of colonists. So a book that favouably details their exploits in Malaysia is welcome...
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Indian Indenture in British Malaysia - David Chanderbali
Indian Indenture in British Malaysia:... The Politics of Policy and Practice in the Straits Settlements... -... David Chanderbali... New. Chanderbali, a Guyanan historian, came to write this study after noting the similarities between the indenture system practiced by British planters in the West Indies and the system practiced in the early...
Price: $39.00
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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...
Price: $13.00
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Indigenous Groups of Sabah: An Annotated Bibliography - HJ Combrink - 2 vols
Indigenous Groupsof Sabah:... An Annotated Bibliography of Linguistic and Anthropological Sources Parts 1 & 2... (two volumes)... -... Hans J Combrink, Craig Soderberg, Michael E Boutin and Alanna Y Boutin... This two volume work gathers together details of written studies on Sabah's indigenous groups up to the year 2000. The information...
Price: $128.00
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