29 research outputs found
Islamic Justice, State Law, and Cultural Politics in Indonesia: A Review Essay
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A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau
No full textNeoliberal globalization, the punitive, and the pastoral
No full textIn this contribution I draw on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia and provide an overview of the punitive trends in legal spheres and more encompassing cultural-political domains that typically accompany neoliberal globalization. I also consider some of the pastoral developments that are commonly entangled with these trends. Finally, I point to some of the ways that my work in these areas has been inspired by Aihwa Ong’s scholarship and suggest that, going forward, pastoral modalities of care, leadership, and governance are among the themes that ethnographers of contemporary global processes and problems should prioritize
Review of Being Malay in Indonesia: Histories, Hopes, and Citizenship in the Riau Archipelago
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Malay Kinship. By David Banks. Philadelphia: ISHI, 1983. viii, 200 pp. Maps, Photographs, Tables, Figures, Bibliography, Index. N.p.
No full textThe Peasant Robbers of Kedah 1900–1929: Historical and Folk Perceptions. By Cheah Boon Kheng. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988. ix, 151 pp. $39.00.
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Matriliny and Modernity: Sexual Politics and Social Change in Rural Malaysia. By Maila Stivens. St. Leonard's, N.S.W.: Allen and Unwin, 1996. xiii, 316 pp. $29–95 (paper). Distributed by Paul and Company.
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