Negotiating indigenous identity in postcolonial Malaysia: Beyond being 'not quite/not Malay'

Social Identities

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 511-534

  Nah, Alice M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; POST-COLONIALISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 0942280300     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350463032000174650     Document Type: Article

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