ISBN:
87-7694-1620-9
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978-87-7694-162-8
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978-9971698324
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 310 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Southeast Asia Publications Series
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Malaysia Ethnie Indonesien
;
Orang Asli
;
Geschichte
;
Ethnizität
;
Identität
;
Minorität
;
Kolonisierung
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
Abstract:
This study deals with the little-explored history of indigeneity and racial thinking in the Malay Peninsula during the period of British influence and rule. Starting at the turn of the nineteenth century and continuing until the 1930s, the author charts the progression of thought concerning a category of people who became known as aborigines or indigenous peoples, and analyses the politics of knowledge in determining racial affinities. The book explores on the conceptualization of indigeneity in the racial categorization of "aborigines" and "Malays" by investigating the interaction between the emerging discipline of anthropology and the evolving colonial administration in Malaya. Taming the Wild historicizes the racial categorization of aborigines and the history of British engagement with "aboriginal" groups in Malaya, situating racial knowledge within the larger frames of anthropological and racial thought, and illustrating how nineteenth-century racial knowledge is linked to present-day racial contestations surrounding indigeneity in Malaysia.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Historicizing indigeneity, taming the wild -- 1. The making of aboriginal races -- 2. Aborignes between Malay and English -- 3. Aborigines in the colonial sphere -- 4. Of Sakai and the Census -- 5. Of aborigines and anthropology -- 6. Anthropology and colonialism: the case of Ivor H.N. Evans -- Conclusion: Biology and Orang Asli race politics
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 266 - 294; Basiert auf der Dissertation der Autorin
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Dissertation (Ph.D.), Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2010 unter dem Titel "Taming race: the construction of aborigines in colonial Malaya, 1783-1937"
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