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Culture and Identity: Some Borneo Comparisons
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Abstract:
In an attempt to promote a wide-ranging comparative investigation in Borneo Studies and one
which looks beyond Borneo’s shores to the wider nation-states in which Sarawak, Sabah and
Kalimantan are situated, this paper examines the interrelated concepts of culture and identity, and
more especially identities in motion, in analysing interrelationships and encounters between a
range of peoples and communities. Although it is an attempt to re-orient and promote the study of
Bornean identities what it is doing in a more modest fashion is to bring some of the available
literature together and explore some of the links between case-studies and ideas. The cases are
grouped under four heads (though as the research develops there could be more) whilst keeping in
mind the underlying concepts of centres and margins and cores and peripheries: (1) the nation
state, majorities and minorities; (2) the media, identities and nation-building; (3) borderlands,
margins and identities; and (4) emerging middle classes, lifestyles and identities.
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Date:
2013
Authors:
Victor T. King
Publisher:
Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
