Interpreting Diversity: Europe and the Malay World

Informationen zum Autor Christina Skott is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Wolfson College, College Lecturer at Magdalene College, and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Europe’s relationship with Asia and European colonialism in the Malay world in the early modern era and the long eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung With a chronological scope of the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, contributors in this volume examine the diverse interactions between Europe and the Malay world and how it defines itself from the outside. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Europe and the Malay world 2. Linnaeus and the troglodyte: early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man 3. Manufacturing Malayness: British debates on the Malay nation, civilisation, race and language in the early nineteenth century 4. Hybridity and harmony: nineteenth-century British discourse on syncretism and intercultural compatibility in Malay music 5. A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s expedition to the Malay Peninsula and the early anthropology of Orang Asli 6. Malay – Latin of the Pacific: Hugo Schuchardt’s pursuit of language mixing and creole languages in the Malay world . Bangsawan: the coming of a Malay popular theatrical form 8. Lady White: the literary migration of a Chinese tale

Product details

• Authors: Christina (University of Cambrige Skott
• Assisted by: Christina Skott (Editor), Skott Christina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138203372
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20337-2
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Malaysia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Human Geography