Continuity and change in Brunei Darussalam /
This book analyzes the processes of social, cultural 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 Islami...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Modern anthropology of South-East Asia.
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| Summary: | This book analyzes the processes of social, cultural 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 challenging regional and global environment. It considers events in Brunei's recent history and current sociocultural transformations, which give expression to the traumatic years of decolonization in southeast Asia. A wide range of issues focus on foreign, non-Bruneian narratives of Brunei as against insider or domestic accounts of the sultanate, the status of minority ethnic groups in Brunei and the concept of 'Brunei society,' as well as changes in the character and composition of the famous 'water village', Kampong Ayer, as the cultural heartland of Brunei Malay culture and the sociocultural and economic effects of the resettlement of substantial segments of the population from a 'life on water' to a 'life on land.' A timely and very important study on Brunei Darussalam, the book will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers and area studies specialists in southeast Asian studies and Asian studies. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 190 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367076405 0367076403 |