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Power and politics : the story of Malaysia's Orang Asli

Title: Power and politics : the story of Malaysia's Orang Asli / Roy Davis Linville Jumper.
Author: Jumper, Roy Davis Linville, 1959-
Publication: Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 1997.

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Description

xiii, 149 pages : map; 23 cm

Subject

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Contents

Maps: Malaysia -- Maps: Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia. 1. Introduction -- Pt. I. The Pre-Colonial Period. 2. Orang Asli Origins, the Four Kingdoms, and the Jakun. 3. The Malacca Sultanate, Origins, and Legacy. 4. The Index of Power and Jakun Roles in Early Political/Military Affairs: Orang Laut and Temuan in Particular. 5. The Period of Chiefs: Fusion vs. Penetration and a Broadening of Orang Asli/Malay Relations -- Pt. II. The Colonial Period. 6. Colonial Dawn, Islam Takes Root, and the Orang Asli Balance of Power Changes. 7. Economic Realignment and a Renewed Premium upon Land, Imperial Strategy, and the Colonial Reprieve. 8. Colonial Rule Winds Down, The Emergency/Orang Asli Roles and Effect Upon Malays. 9. Legacies of the Emergency -- Pt. III. The Post-Independence Era. 10. The Mood Upon Independence and Overall Racial, Religious, and Political Climate: Setting the Stage for Orang Asli Ethnopolitical Mobilization. 11. Islamic Fundamentalism in Perspective.
12. Loss of Strategic Flexibility and Some Indirect and Direct Complications Resulting from the Intrusion of Islam. 13. The Land Issue: Bureaucratic/Political Imperatives and Land Laws. 14. GOM's Current Dilemma and Policy Designs for the Orang Asli. 15. The Orang Asli Reaction: Ethnopoliticization and Ethnogenesis.

ISBN

0761807004 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

96029619

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Columbia University Libraries