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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Malays"”.
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
Despite the assumptions of both the 'modernization school' and Marxist theorists that ethnicity was a transitory phenomenon along the path to political development, the past few decades have seen a resurgence of ethnic nationalism. In recent years a number of explanations has been offered for the …
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Muslim separatism: the moros in Southern Philippines and the Malays in Southern Thailand
Despite the assumptions of both the 'modernization school' and Marxist theorists that ethnicity was a transitory phenomenon along the path to political development, the past few decades have seen a resurgence of ethnic nationalism. In recent years a number of explanations has been offered for the …
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Social and religious interaction and integration of Chinese Muslim converts with Malays in Kuala Lumpur an empirical study
… changes in line with the identity of the Malays. This is because Islam equates to Malay in the Malaysian context. I believed this behaviour contributes to the disintegration of their ethnic structures, and to rejection by their original ethnic group because of the social differences that …
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Historical process and the constitution of subjects : I.D. du Plessis and the reinvention of the "Malay"
… himself to "preserve" what was known as "the malays". Although having an historical presence in Cape Town, defining the "malays" was always a problem as their very basis was in the process of being eroded as industrialisation forced social and communal changes. But the specificity of the …
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Money, magic and fear : identity and exchange amongst the Orang Suku Laut (sea nomads) and other groups of Riau and Batam, Indonesia.
… regarded as the Orang asli Melayu (indigenous Malays) of Riau. Yet in the interaction between the Malays and Orang Suku Laut, there exists much fear between them with constant accusations of being poisoned and harmed by one and the other through practices of magic and witchcraft. This stems …
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Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
… as Muslim South Africans instead of ?Cape Malays?, the ethnic label given to Muslims in the Western Cape during the apartheid era. I argue that through self stylisation Cape Malay women are performatively rejecting the ethnicisation of Islam during apartheid. I show that ?Cape Malay? women …
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The influence of culture on Malay business practice: a case study of Malaysia with special reference to the State of Kelantan Darul Naim
… the Siti Khadijah Market of Kota Bharu, in the Malaysian state of Kelantan. It followed a qualitative research approach involving library research and a field study. The cultural influences on the Malays were reviewed through three historically distinct phases i.e. the traditionally primitive …
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Application of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to forensic casework in Malaysia
… main aim of the study is to characterize three Malaysian major ethnic groups; Malay, Chinese and Indian, using 52 autosomal SNP markers that have been identified in the SNPforID project. Sanchez et. al., 2006 reported a multiplex of 52 SNP markers in one PCR reaction with two single base …
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TAMILS IN MALAYSIA: PROBLEMS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR AN IMMIGRANT MINORITY GROUP
Malaysian Tamils are in an unenviable position for socio-economic advancement in this relatively prosperous southeast Asian peninsula. Locked into a more or less permanent minority representing only about ten percent of the population, they are caught between Malay majority political power and a …
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Cultural and economic change in the Singapore Malay community
… household with accounts of the household in Malaysia and Java to identify cultural continuities and to assess the impact that the conditions of urban wage work in Singapore have had on deeply embedded cultural idea. The Malay idea of the economic integrity of the individual is found to be …
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"Halal" Intimacy: Love, Marriage and Polygamy in Contemporary Malaysia
… legality, money, sex(uality) and sin direct Malays’ marital strategies in the face of various social, moral, religious and structural pressures. Passionate love (cinta) is cherished and celebrated by Malays – that is, if it is indulged within marriage. Marriage serves as a license to engage …
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Survival of breast cancer patients and the potential for better prognostication
… different ethnic groups in Singapore: Chinese, Malays and Indians; the effects of biological factors of tumours on survival amongst the different ethnic groups in Singapore; and the use of a custom molecular array as a potential for better prognostication in addition to standard clinical tests …
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RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT DURING AND AFTER THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF MALAYA AND SINGAPORE IN THE NOVELS OF CHIN KEE ONN, NOEL BARBER AND LIM THEAN SOO
… issue of inter-ethnic social conflict among the Malays, Chinese, Indians and others as well as the united fight for independence against the imperialist rule of the Japanese and the British from the period of the Japanese Occupation (1941 -1945) and into the post-war reconstruction that was …
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The revenge of the Bantamese : factors for change in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1930-1978
… in control of the economic destiny of the Cocos Malays of Horne Island. The Australian media had called him the "King of Cocos", but his political authority over the Islanders had been eroded over several years by the increasing involvement of the Australian Government in Cocos affairs, …
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The revenge of the Bantamese : factors for change in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 1930-1978
… in control of the economic destiny of the Cocos Malays of Horne Island. The Australian media had called him the "King of Cocos", but his political authority over the Islanders had been eroded over several years by the increasing involvement of the Australian Government in Cocos affairs, …
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The cession of Sarawak to the British Crown in 1946
… state in which power would be shared between the Malays and the Ibans.
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The cession of Sarawak to the British Crown in 1946
… state in which power would be shared between the Malays and the Ibans.
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