Staging Indigenous Heritage - Instrumentalisation, Brokerage, and Representation in Malaysia

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Cai demonstrates how they are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation that reinforce a culture of dependency on the brokers, marginalising their intended beneficiaries.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Historicising Indigeneity in Malaysia
Chapter 3: Capacity-building as a modern civilising mission
Chapter 4: Indigeneity as an intractable double-bind
Chapter 5: Appropriation, reinvention, and contestation of Indigenous heritage
Chapter 6: The big man as arbitrator of heritage
Chapter 7: Conclusion

About the author

Yunci Cai is Lecturer in Museum Studies and Co-Director of the MA/MSc in the Heritage and Interpretation (Distance Learning) programme at the University of Leicester, UK. She is a critical heritage and museum studies scholar, specialising in the cultural politics and museologies in and of Asia.

Summary

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Cai demonstrates how they are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation that reinforce a culture of dependency on the brokers, marginalising their intended beneficiaries.

Product details

• Authors: Yunci Cai, Yunci (University of Leicester Cai
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2022
• EAN: 9780367536916
• ISBN: 978-0-367-53691-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in Culture and Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, Cultural Studies, Asia, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Social groups, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, Social groups, communities and identities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General