Research Catalog

Title

Continuity and change in Brunei Darussalam / edited by Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• King, Victor T.
• Druce, Stephen C.

Description

viii, 190 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book analyses the processes of social, cultural and economic change in Brunei Darussalam. Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally-based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic Monarchy in Brunei Darussalam in a historical context and examines these in an increasingly challenging regional and global environment. It considers events in Brunei's recent history and current socio-cultural transformations, which give expression to the traumatic years of decolonisation in Southeast Asia. A wide range of issues focus on foreign, non-Bruneian narratives of Brunei as against insider or domestic accounts of the sultanate, the status of minority ethnic groups in Brunei and the concept of 'Brunei society', as well as changes in the character and composition of the famous 'water village', Kampong Ayer, as the cultural heartland of Brunei Malay culture and the socio-cultural and economic effects of the resettlement of substantial segments of the population from a 'life on water' to a 'life on land'. A timely and very important study on Brunei Darussalam, the book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, and area studies specialists in Southeast Asian Studies and Asian Studies"--

Series Statement

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia

Uniform Title

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Brunei > Politics and government > 20th century
• Brunei > Politics and government > 21st century
• Brunei > Social conditions > 20th century
• Brunei > Social conditions > 21st century
• Brunei

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Donald Brown's Brunei: society, culture and recent transformations -- Monarchy in Brunei: past, present and future -- 'So near and yet so far': Shaikh A. M. Azahari and -- Hybrid pathways to orthodoxy: bureaucratisation, Sharia-compliant exorcism and the powers of Japanese water-crystal photography in Brunei Darussalam -- Inside or outside the mainstream? An ethnolinguistic study of the status of minority ethnic groups in Negara Brunei Darussalam -- Menteri Darat and incorporation: integration of Dusun society into the organisational structure of the Brunei Sultanate -- The place of Kadayan in traditional Brunei society -- Living on water: water settlements in Borneo -- Development, change and modernisation in Kampong Ayer over the last fifty years -- Prospects and challenges of heritage tourism at Kampong Ayer (Water Village) in Brunei Darussalam -- Brunei: fifty years and more.

Call Number

JFE 21-3470

ISBN

• 9780367076405
• 0367076403

LCCN

• 2020023781
• 40030345601

OCLC

1155538090

Title

Continuity and change in Brunei Darussalam / edited by Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce.

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

The modern anthropology of Southeast Asia

Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

King, Victor T., editor.

Druce, Stephen C., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030345601

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3470