Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka 9780824863319

Despite the existence of about a thousand ethnolinguistic groups in Southeast Asia, very few historians of the region ha

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Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka
 9780824863319

Table of contents :
Contents
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Malayu Antecedents
Chapter 2. Emergence of Malayu
Chapter 3. Ethnicization of the Minangkabau
Chapter 4. From Malayu to Aceh
Chapter 5. The Batak Malayu
Chapter 6. The Orang Laut and the Malayu
Chapter 7. The Orang Asli/Suku Terasing and the Malayu
Conclusion: Framing the Southeast Asian Past in Ethnic Terms
Notes
Abbreviations
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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