Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across BoundariesTimothy P. Barnard Contesting Malayness assembles research on the theme of how Malays have identified themselves in time and place, developed by a wide range of scholars. While the authors describe some of the historical and cultural patterns that make up the Malay world, taken as a whole their work demonstrates the impossibility of offering a definition or even a description of "Melayu" that is not rife with omissions and contradictions. |
Contents
Understanding Melayu Malay as a Source of Diverse Modern Identities | 1 |
Malay Identity Modernity Invented Tradition and Forms of Knowledge | 25 |
The Search for the Origins of Melayu | 56 |
The Makassar Malays Adaptation and Identity c 16601790 | 76 |
Texts Raja Ismail and Violence Siak and the Transformation of Malay Identity in the Eighteenth Century | 107 |
A Malay of Bugis Ancestry Haji Ibrahims Strategies of Survival | 121 |
A History of an Identity an Identity of a History The Idea and Practice of Malayness in Malaysia Reconsidered | 135 |
Reconfiguring Malay and Islam in Contemporary Malaysia | 149 |
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