1st Edition
Staging Indigenous Heritage Instrumentalisation, Brokerage, and Representation in Malaysia
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
Biography
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.
"Staging Indigenous Heritage is filled with detailed ethnographic notes on various rituals and cultural practices within the four case studies that will be of interest to scholars interested in learning more about the dynamics within indigenous community groups in Malaysia. It also serves to inform future Asia development studies projects on the issues on the brokerage system." --Roslynn Ang, Independent scholar, Singapore
