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Malay Local History: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

A. C. Milner
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The following two articles were originally contributions to a conference panel on “Malay local history: varieties of Malay experience”. The panel was concerned with the way Malay culture has been “localized” in different situations. The concept of “localization”, as discussed by Professor O. W. Wolters, refers to the process by which an imported culture tends to be “fractured and restated and therefore drained of original significance”.

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Malay Local History
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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1986

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13 Ibid., passim.

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15 See Note 14.

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18 Kerajaan. See Note 8.

19 Ibid., chs. V and VI.