Yunci Cai

Staging Indigenous Heritage (eBook, PDF)

Instrumentalisation, Brokerage, and Representation in Malaysia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429622915
• Artikelnr.: 59898702

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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