| Автор | A. B., Shamsul |
| Дата выпуска | 2001 |
| dc.description | This article is a critique of ethnicity theories based on essentialism – the idea that ethnic traits are innate (essences) both in the individual and the ‘ethnie’ as a social group – which have been adopted, wittingly or unwittingly, by historians in mainstream Malaysian historiography in their effort to explain the formation of ‘Malay-Malayness’ as a social identity. It proposes instead that Malay ethnicity is not innate but rather learned or constructed, and Malay-Malayness has been created as a result of intersecting historical, cultural and social factors at a particular moment in a cultureʼs life and history. Indeed, Malay-Malayness has been constructed by a colonial historiography and subsequently adopted uncritically by most historians in postcolonial Malaysia, both Malays and non-Malays. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | A History of an Identity, an Identity of a History: The Idea and Practice of ‘Malayness’ in Malaysia Reconsidered |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022463401000194 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1474-0680 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-4634 |
| Журнал | Journal of Southeast Asian Studies |
| Том | 32 |
| Первая страница | 355 |
| Последняя страница | 366 |
| Аффилиация | A. B. Shamsul; Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (ATMA), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Выпуск | 3 |
