Interpreting Diversity: Europe and the Malay World
This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialismin the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by European presence in the region. The aim here is to map the ways in which European observers and scholars interpreted the ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity which has been seen as a hallmark of Southeast Asia. With a chronological scope of the eighteenth to the early twentieth century,contributors examine not only European writing on the Malay world,but also the complex origins of various forms of knowledge, dependent on local agency but always closely intertwined with contemporary metropolitan scientific and scholarly ideas.
Knowledge of the peoples, languages and music of the Malay world, it is argued, came to inform and shape European scholarship within a variety of areas, such as enlightenment science and anthropology, ideas of human progress, philological theory, ethnomusicology and emerging theories of race. But this volume also contributes to ongoing debates within the region, by discussing ideas about the Malay language and definitions of Malayness. The last chapters of this book present a reversed viewpoint, in examinations of how local cultural forms, theatrical traditions and literature were reshaped and given new meaning through encounters with cosmopolitanism and perceived modernity. This book was previously published as a special issue of Indonesia and the Malay World.
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 Europes relationship with Asia and European colonialism in the Malay world in the early modern era and the long eighteenth century.
Interpreting Diversity: Europe and the Malay World
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This volume is dedicated to the memory of
Isabella Matauschek (19702016)
Contents
Christina Skott
Christina Skott
Martin Mller
David R.M. Irving
Elena Govor and Sandra Khor Manickam
Isabella Matauschek
Jan van der Putten
Neil Khor
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Indonesia and the Malay World, volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Europe and the Malay world
Christina Skott
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 129140
Linnaeus and the troglodyte: Early European encounters with the Malay world and the natural history of man
Christina Skott
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 141169
Manufacturing Malayness: British debates on the Malay nation, civilisation, race and language in the early nineteenth century
Martin Mller
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 170196
Hybridity and harmony: Nineteenth-century British discourse on syncretism and intercultural compatibility in Malay music
David R.M. Irving
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 197221
A Russian in Malaya: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclays expedition to the Malay Peninsula and the early anthropology of Orang Asli
Elena Govor and Sandra Khor Manickam
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 222245
Malay Latin of the Pacific: Hugo Schuchardts pursuit of language mixing and creole languages in the Malay world
Isabella Matauschek
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 246267
Bangsawan: The coming of a Malay popular theatrical form
Jan van der Putten
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 268285
Lady White: The literary migration of a Chinese tale
Neil Khor
Indonesia and the Malay World , volume 42, issue 123 (July 2014) pp. 286303
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Elena Govoris is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on cross-cultural contacts between Russians and peoples of the Pacific and Australia, which she has examined in a range of publications including Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific (2010). She is currently working on the ARC-funded grant The original field anthropologist: Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay in Oceania.
David R.M. Irving is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He researches the role of music in intercultural exchange, colonialism and globalisation. He is the author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (2010) and co-editor with Tara Alberts of Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia: History and Society in the Early Modern World (2013).
Neil Khor is currently an Affiliated Scholar at the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Neil read English for his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His area of specialisation is Straits Chinese literature and the social history of Penang. His publications include Glimpses of Old Penang (2001), The Penang Po Leung Kuk: Chinese Women, Prostitution and A Welfare Organisation (2003), Penang Turf Club: 140 Years of Racing (2004) and more recently Chinese Women: Their Malaysian Journey (2010).
Sandra Khor Manickam is Lecturer in the Department of History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She has formerly held posts at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her areas of research include the colonial history of Malaya, the history of anthropology and ideas of race. Her book, Taming the Wild: Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya, was published by NUS Press in 2015. Her most recent project deals with the history of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
