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Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World.(Book review)
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Oceania
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Purdey, Jemma
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Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World By Joel S. Kahn Singapore: ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series in association with Singapore University Press and NIAS Press. 2006. Pp: xxv +228 Price: US$25
As Kahn describes it, the search for the 'other' or 'heretofore "silenced" peoples' has a long tradition in anthropological and post colonial scholarship. It is an approach that seeks to 'recover' or rescue the untold and excluded narratives subsumed by the colonial and nationalist hegemonies. Kahn's aims in this book are similarly focused--indeed the title appears to give this away--yet at the same time he seeks to challenge the capacity of ...