The Avatar of 1786: Decolonizing the Penang Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Avatar of 1786: Decolonizing the Penang Story write by Ahmad Murad Merican. This book was released on 2023-10-11. The Avatar of 1786: Decolonizing the Penang Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There must be a closure to the history of Pulau Pinang (and Kedah). There was no 1786 treaty - no agreement, no document, no signatories. The narrative continues independent of each other, representing an uncomfortable conscience glancing at each as two separate polities of Penang and Kedah, socially and intellectually structured by the year 1786. This book makes a strange revisit to pretension of a fact/event. And it counters the terra nullius doctrine. It also establishes that the lex loci was the Adat Temenggong (customary law) modified by the Qanun (laws) of Kedah. Malay collective memory maintains that Pulau Pinang is integral to the Kedah Sultanate. The island has law, order and society before the presence of the Europeans; not a "band of natives and fishermen" as stereotyped by the colonial narrative, even in the colonial courts. The Malays in Pulau Pinang in recent decades have become 'beggars' to their own history. This book contests that history through moral and legal arguments, as well as raising the themes and issues of representation and redemption.
Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions
Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions write by Kopi Soh. This book was released on 2021-08-31. Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks. Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointing at the moon would result in one's ears getting chopped off, and children were forced to stay indoors during sundown for fear of collision with evil forces. A world where mental disorders and illnesses were believed to be caused by malevolent spirits. Talisman, mediums and fortune tellers were a part of everyday life.
In Other Words
In Other Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Other Words write by Ahmad Murad Merican. This book was released on 2017. In Other Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Colonialism in the Malay Archipelago
Colonialism in the Malay Archipelago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism in the Malay Archipelago write by Osman Bakar. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Colonialism in the Malay Archipelago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book fourteen leading scholars and intellectual-activists provide a collective treatment of the theme of colonialism in the Malay Archipelago from the as yet little explored perspective of civilisational encounters. The centuries-long Western colonial presence in the Archipelago had generated both peaceful and violent encounters that were to prove consequential on the civilisational history of the region. The book's chapters attempt to present new insights into the nature and multidimensional character of these civilisational encounters and their significance for the life and thought of contemporary Malay Archipelago that now comprises the modern nation-states of Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, and Timor-Leste.
Orientalism and Race
Orientalism and Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orientalism and Race write by T. Ballantyne. This book was released on 2016-01-03. Orientalism and Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global reach of British Imperialism. Tony Ballantyne charts the shifting meanings of Aryanism within these 'webs' of Empire.
