1st Edition
Interpreting Diversity: Europe and the Malay World
1. Europe and the Malay world
Christina Skott
2. Linnaeus and the troglodyte: early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man
Christina Skott
3. Manufacturing Malayness: British debates on the Malay nation, civilisation, race and language in the early nineteenth century
Martin Müller
4. Hybridity and harmony: nineteenth-century British discourse on syncretism and intercultural compatibility in Malay music
David R.M. Irving
5. A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay’s expedition to the Malay Peninsula and the early anthropology of Orang Asli
Elena Govor and Sandra Khor Manickam
6. Malay – Latin of the Pacific: Hugo Schuchardt’s pursuit of language mixing and creole languages in the Malay world
Isabella Matauschek
7. Bangsawan: the coming of a Malay popular theatrical form
Jan van der Putten
8. Lady White: the literary migration of a Chinese tale
Neil Khor
Biography
Christina Skott is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Wolfson College, College Lecturer at Magdalene College, and an affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on Europe’s relationship with Asia and European colonialism in the Malay world in the early modern era and the long eighteenth century.
