What Your Teacher Didn't Tell You

by

Farish A Noor

 Noor, who has been dubbed as 'Malaysia's hippiest intellectual' demonstrates his wide ranging intellect as well capacity to inform and entertain in this collection of lectures. The chapter titles alone are enough to make one want to read further. Contents

• 1 - Pity the Poor Keris (The Transcultural Origins of the Keris and How it was turned into an Ethno-Nationalist Marker),
• 2 - The Lost Tribes of Malaysia ( The Construction of Race Politics From Colonial Era to the Present),
• 3 - Of Rajas, Maharajas, Dewarajas and the Kerajaan ( Four Thousand Years of Feudal Politics from Majapahit to Malaysia Today),
• 4 - From Pigafetta to Panji (Revisiting the History of Sexuality in Southeast Asia in the Hikayat Panji Semirang),
• 5 - The Red Green Alliance ( The 'Left-Leaning Years'of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS),
• 6 - Hang Tuah The Pacifisct (Deconstructing Our National Hero) and an extensive biography.
• 287 pages.
• Very Good Paperback Reprint. Originally published in 2009

Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia

Published by Matahari Books, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, 2009. ISBN: 9789834484538

Condition: The cover is clean and in plastic wrap. The text block has very mild spotting. The binding is tight and there is no tanning throughout. A very smart copy.