Clare L. Boulanger

A Sleeping Tiger

Ethnicity, Class, and New Dayak Dreams in Urban Sarawak

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Sleeping Tiger is a rare book-length treatment of urbanization among Dayaks and also offers a fresh perspective on ethnicity, class, and the context in which they function to the benefit of some and the great detriment of others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780761843764
• ISBN-10: 0761843760
• Artikelnr.: 25468278

Autorenporträt

By Clare L. Boulanger

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 One. Introduction: Ethnicity, class, and dreams of dignity
Chapter 2 Two. The construction of ethnicity in Sarawak-from Brunei to
Malaysia Chapter 3 Three. Malaysia and the "race race" to modernity Chapter
4 Four. Malaya and Sarawak-a long, slow pas de deux Chapter 5 Five.
Fieldwork in the urban jungles of Borneo Chapter 6 Six. Dayaks-losing the
"race race"? Chapter 7 Seven. "Fighting in a different way": In defense of
being Dayak Chapter 8 Eight. Conclusion: The impossible dream? Chapter 9
Postscript: The general elections of 2008