Author: Richard L. Schwenk Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 52
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A study of longhouse communities in East Malaysia based on the Iban Longhouse dwellers of the Seventh Division of Sarawak. Discusses some of the main developmental problems and needs of rural peoples. With 4 figures and 12 tables.
Author: United Nations Asian And Pacific Development Inst Publisher: Concept Publishing Company ISBN: 9788170221029 Category : Languages : en Pages : 420
Author: John R. Clammer Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 30
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The Straits Chinese (otherwise known as Babas or Peranakans) represent a unique blend of Chinese and Malay cultural traits and yet are quite distinct from both these two source cultures. Many rose to the positions of political and social prominence under British rule. The nature of this cultural and political accommodation and its dynamics provide an ideal ethnographic base for an exploration of ethnicity in Southeast Asia. This paper examines the nature of their identity and culture, the changes in the nature of the group and internal and external criteria for identification. The thesis is that the emergence of the Baba community is due to a combination of social and political factors, including the nurturing of a group willing to distinguish themselves from other Chinese migrants by learning English and acting as social and political brokers between the government and the population. Their position becomes ambiguous after 1942, with the decline of British influence. The writer's argument is that the outcome of this situation is not to be explained by factors of choice or perception but by structural factors. The paper concludes with an examination of these structural factors (including processes of accommodation, assimilation, and resignification) which have their roots in the colonial past of the area in the present management of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore.
Author: Chee Peng Lim Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 100
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A study of Japanese direct investment (JDI) in Malaysia, this monograph's data is culled from a survey of Japanese enterprises in Malaysia by the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO), the results of a sample survey of eighteen Japanese firms in Malaysia, personal interviews and other documentary sources. The general characteristics of this direct investment are laid out and aspects like employment, training, subcontracting and transfer of technology are examined in some depth. Also, some cases of selected firms are included by way of illuminating major points in the study.
Author: R. William Liddle Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 36
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Examines the aliran (streams, ways of life, comprehensive patterns of social integration with a political party as organizational core) theme from the perspective of how it helps in understanding the dynamics of the present New Order regime - the nature of the power structure on which the New Order rests, the patterns of conflict within the regime and between it and its opponents, and the probability of its continuation in power.
Author: Paul H. Kratoska Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 41
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Investigates rural indebtedness in the Malay States and the role in it of chettiar money-lenders from the economic and socio-historical viewpoint.
Author: Richard L. Schwenk
Author: United Nations Asian And Pacific Development Inst
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Author: John R. Clammer
Author: Peter Searle
Author: Sarawak Museum
Author: Chee Peng Lim
Author: R. William Liddle
Author: Victor T. King
Author: Paul H. Kratoska