Research Catalog

Title

Minority cultures of Peninsular Malaysia : survivals of indigenous heritage / editors, Razha Rashid & Wazir Jahan Karim.

Publication

Penang : Academy of Social Sciences, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Mohd. Razha b. Hj. Abd. Rashid.
• Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim
• Academy of Social Sciences (Pinang)
• Academy of Social Sciences (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)

Description

xii, 194 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 31 cm.

Series Statement

Readers series

Uniform Title

Readers series.

Alternative Title

Survivals of indigenous heritage

Subject

• Ethnology > Malaya
• Orang Asal (Malaysian people)
• Minorities > Malaya

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Constructing emotions and world of the Orang Asli / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Genetic studies on the Orang Asli / Adela Baer -- Material culture as technological transformation / Wazir Jahan Karim and Razha Rashid -- Development, modernity, and the Orang Asli / Razha Rashid -- Minorities of the minority, language death and patterns of cultural extinction / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Linguistic aspects of the Semang / Niclas Burenhult -- Sociolinguistic aspects of northern Aslian languages / Nancy McAllistar Bishop -- Orang Asli languages / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Process and structure in Temiar social organisation / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Cultural resilience in encountering 'development' / Signe Howell -- Environmental economics and the Ma' Betise' in mangrove rainforests / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Semai-Malay ethnobotany / Robert Knox Dentan.

ISBN

9839700774

LCCN

^^2003414460

OCLC

53013612

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library