1st Edition
Modernity and Malaysia Settling the Menraq Forest Nomads
By Alberto Gomes
Copyright 2007
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities.
Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 years, the Menraq (also known as Semang or Negritos) were nomadic foragers until they were resettled... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Social and Cultural Milieu 3. Modernity, Development, and Tribal Communities 4. Rual Resettlement 5. Menraq as Foragers 6. From Foragers to Commodity Producers 7. Social and Cultural Change
Biography
Alberto Gomes is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at La Trobe University, Australia. His books include Looking for Money (COAC and Trans Pacific Press, 2004) and Malaysia and the Original People (with R. Dentan, K. Endicott, and M. B. Hooker, Allyn and Bacon, 1997).
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