by Barnard, Timothy P. (Editor)

Price: US$19.75 (S$32.00*)
Region: Southeast Asia/Asean
Format: Paperback, 318 pages
Published: 2004, Singapore, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9971692791
SB#: 034967

About This Book
These 12 papers are related to those originally given at a 1998 scholars' conference at Leiden University and to research done there and elsewhere over many years. Many areas are explored around the difficulties in defining "Malay" or Melayu, or Malayness. Among the matters addressed are: diversity of the modern indentities "melayu"; origins; Makassar Malays of the 17th and 18th centuries; some 18th century texts; survival strategies of a 19th century Haji Ibrahim of Bugis ancestry; issues of identity and Islam in contemporary Malaysia; Borneo and Malayness; Indonesian literatures in Malay; a translated epic poem by a contemporary poet from Sumatra; and a stimulating afterword history of Malay ethnicity by Professor Anthony Milner. With annotations and index.