Staging Indigenous Heritage

Instrumentalisation, Brokerage, and Representation in Malaysia
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-14854-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 537 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Culture and Development

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Demonstrating that such villages are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation, the book shows that this reinforces a culture of dependency on the brokers.

By critically examining the relationship between Indigenous tourism and development through the establishment of Indigenous cultural villages, the book addresses the complexities of adopting the ‘culture for development’ paradigm as a developmental strategy. Demonstrating that the opportunities for self-representation and self-determination can become entwined with the politics of brokerage and the contradictory dualism of culture, it becomes clear that this can both facilitate and compromise their intended outcomes. Challenging the simplistic conceptualisation of Indigenous communities as harmonious and unified wholes, the book shows how Indigenous cultures are actively forged, struggled over, and negotiated in contemporary Malaysia.

Confronting the largely positive rhetoric in current discourses on the benefits of community-based cultural projects, Staging Indigenous Heritage should be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural heritage studies, Indigenous studies, development studies, tourism, anthropology, and geography. The book should also be of interest to museum and heritage professionals around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cai, Yunci

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften, Archivwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.