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Identity and the State in Malaysia (Paperback)
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Identity and the State in Malaysia (Paperback)
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
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Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the
Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic
and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the
importance of the connection between lived experience and identity
and belonging, and by doing so, provides a deeper and fuller
explanation of the apparently contradictory conflict between
different collective forms of identification and the way in which
they are employed in reference to everyday situations. Based on
ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis, the book
reconstructs the development of the cultural forms and labels
associated with the collective identities it studies. The author
employs an approach that sees collective identification as an
expression of everyday practices and that stresses the importance
of participation and familiarity between forms of identification
and lived experience. In this context, he considers anthropological
debates about state-minorities relations and issues of 'dignity'
and 'respect'. Explaining state-minority relations in Malaysia and
more generally in other post-colonial realities, the insights
presented are highly relevant to other cases of conflicting
allegiances and identity politics in settings of post-colonial
nation-building.
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