Research Catalog

Title

Staging indigenous heritage : instrumentalisation, brokerage, and representation in Malaysia / Yunci Cai.

Author

Cai, Yunci

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xx, 224 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Cai demonstrates how they are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation that reinforce a culture of dependency on the brokers, marginalising their intended beneficiaries. By critically examining the relationship between Indigenous tourism and development through the establishment of Indigenous cultural villages, the book addresses the complexities of adopting the 'culture for development' paradigm as a developmental strategy. Demonstrating that the opportunities for self-representation and self-determination can become entwined with the politics of brokerage and the contradictory dualism of culture, the book shows how this can both facilitate and compromise their intended outcomes. Challenging the simplistic conceptualisation of Indigenous communities as harmonious and unified wholes, Cai shows how Indigenous cultures are actively forged, struggled over and negotiated in contemporary Malaysia Confronting the largely positive rhetoric in current discourses on the benefits of community-based cultural projects, Staging Indigenous Heritage should be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural heritage studies, Indigenous studies, development studies, tourism, anthropology and geography. The book should also interest museum and heritage professionals around the world"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in culture and development

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in culture and development.

Subject

• Orang Asal (Malaysian people)
• Ethnology > Malaysia
• Villages > Malaysia
• Heritage tourism > Malaysia
• Ethnology
• Heritage tourism
• Villages
• Malaysia
• Cultural villages

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-239

ISBN

• 9780367148546
• 0367148544
• 9780429053627 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2020012797
• 40030247378

OCLC

1145289249

Author

Cai, Yunci, author.

Title

Staging indigenous heritage : instrumentalisation, brokerage, and representation in Malaysia / Yunci Cai.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in culture and development

Routledge studies in culture and development.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-215) and index.

Indexed Term

Cultural villages

Other Form:

Online version: Cai, Yunci. Staging indigenous heritage. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9780429053627 (DLC) 2020012798

Other Standard Identifier

40030247378

Research Call Number

JFE 21-239