1st Edition

Continuity and Change in Brunei Darussalam

Edited By Victor T. King, Stephen C. Druce Copyright 2021
202 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyses the processes of social and economic change in Brunei Darussalam. Drawing on recent studies undertaken by both locally based scholars and senior researchers from outside the state, the book explores the underlying strengths, characteristics, and uniqueness of Malay Islamic Monarchy in Brunei Darussalam in a historical context and examines these in an increasingly... Read more

1. Introduction: Donald Brown’s Brunei: Society, and Recent Transformations

Victor T. King and Stephen C. Druce 

2. Monarchy in Brunei: Past, Present and Future

Ooi Keat Gin 

3. ‘So near and yet so far’: Shaikh A. M. Azahari and 1962

B. A. Hussainmiya 

4. Hybrid Pathways to Orthodoxy: Bureaucratisation, Sharia-Compliant Exorcism and the Powers of Japanese Water-Crystal Photography in Brunei Darussalam

Dominik M. Müller 

5. Inside or Outside the Mainstream? An Ethnolinguistic Study of the Status of Minority Indigenous Groups in Negara Brunei Darussalam

Noor Azam Haji-Othman and James McLellan 

 6. Menteri Darat and Incorporation: Integration of Dusun Society into the Organisational Structure of the Brunei Sultanate

Pudarno Binchin 

7. The Place of Kadayan in Traditional Brunei Society

Allen R. Maxwell 

8. Living on Water: Water Settlements in Borneo

Hans-Dieter Evers 

9. Development, Change and Modernisation in Kampong Ayer over the Last Fifty Years

Haji Tassim bin Haji Abu Bakar 

10. Prospects and Challenges of Heritage Tourism at Kampong Ayer (Water Village) in Brunei Darussalam

Shafi Noor Islam 

11. Epilogue: Brunei Studies: Fifty Years and More

Donald E. Brown

Biography

Victor T. King is Professor of Borneo Studies at the Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam and Emeritus Professor of South East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-author of The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia (Routledge 2006) and co-editor of the Routledge series Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia.

Stephen C. Druce is Programme Leader in Graduate Studies and Research at the Academy of Brunei Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He is the author of The Lands West of the Lakes: A History of the Ajattappareng Kingdoms of South Sulawesi, 1200 to 1600 CE (2009).