Yearning to Belong : Malaysia's Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese

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Malaysia is among the most ethnically diverse and culturally rich nations on earth. Yet much of its cultural wealth lies buried beneath the rubric of its main Malay, Chinese and Indian "race" categories; the dazzling diversity within and outside these groups remains largely unexplored. Thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pillai, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: SG : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Tamil (Indic people) > Ethnic identity.
Portuguese > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity.
Ethnic relations.
Peranakan (Peuple d'Asie) > Identite ethnique > Malaisie.
Portugais > Identite ethnique > Malaisie.
Ethnicite > Malaisie.
Boyanese (Indonesian people) > Malaysia > Ethnic identity.
Peranakan (Asian people) > Malaysia > Ethnic identity.
Portuguese > Malaysia > Ethnic identity.
Tamil (Indic people) > Malaysia > Ethnic identity.
Ethnicity > Malaysia.
Malaysia.
Malaisie > Relations interethniques.
Malaysia > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Malaysia is among the most ethnically diverse and culturally rich nations on earth. Yet much of its cultural wealth lies buried beneath the rubric of its main Malay, Chinese and Indian "race" categories; the dazzling diversity within and outside these groups remains largely unexplored. This book uncovers some of this fascinating diversity through the stories of five little-known acculturated ethnic groups in Peninsula Malaysia. The author, a Malaysian sociologist, delivers an insightful and lucid study of these groups, with some surprising findings. These communities illustrate how much more c.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9789814519687

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