Research Catalog

Title

Identity and the state in Malaysia / Fausto Barlocco.

Author

Barlocco, Fausto

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

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Details

Description

xi, 157 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a deeper and fuller explanation of the apparently contradictory conflict between different collective forms of identification and the way in which they are employed in reference to everyday situations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis, the book reconstructs the development of the cultural forms and labels associated with the collective identities studies. The author employs an approach that sees collective identification as an expression of everyday practices and that stresses the importance of participation and familiarity between forms of identification and lived experience. In this context, he considers anthropological debates about state-minorities relations and issues of 'dignity' and 'respect'. Explaining state-minority relations in Malaysia and more generally in other post-colonial realities, the insights presented are highly relevant to other cases of conflicting allegiances and identity politics in settings of post-colonial nation-building"--

Series Statement

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia

Uniform Title

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.

Subject

• Dusun (Bornean people) > Ethnic identity
• Identity politics > Malaysia > Sabah
• Ethnology > Malaysia > Sabah
• National characteristics, Malaysian
• Sabah > Ethnic relations
• Malaysia > Ethnic relations
• Malaysia > Cultural policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introducing the 'field' : the ethnographic setting of the research -- The formation of the Kadazan : ethnic identities in pre-colonial, colonial and early post-colonial Sabah -- The Dusunic peoples and Malaysian nation-building (1967-present) -- Self and other : collective identities between citizenship rights and illegal immigration -- Media and belonging to the nation -- The constitution of village belonging through leisure sociality -- A tale of two celebrations : the Pesta Kaamatan as a site of struggle between the Dusunic peoples and the state.

Call Number

JFE 14-1389

ISBN

• 9780415820967 (hardback)
• 0415820960 (hardback)
• 9781315856995 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013023305

OCLC

848756286

Author

Barlocco, Fausto, author.

Title

Identity and the state in Malaysia / Fausto Barlocco.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1389