Making Heritage in Malaysia Sites, Histories, Identities

• Other Authors: Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2020
• Subjects: Historic preservation > Malaysia; Cultural property > Protection > Malaysia; National characteristics, Malaysian; Malaysia > Antiquities
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This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of "museumising" heritage, the book then addresses a broad range...

Table of Contents:

• aIntroduction: Postcolonialising Heritage and the Idea of "Malaysia"
• PART I: (RE)TELLING MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY STORIES
• Negotiating Museum Narratives: The Sarawak Museum, the Brooke State, and the Construction of Cultural Heritage, 1886-1963
• The Serdang Folk Museum and the Performance of Heritage: Community Museums as an Alternative to National Heritage
• Dual Triumphalist Heritage Narrative and the Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement
• PART II: (RE)MAPPING MULTICULTURAL AND FOLKLORE HERITAGE
• Cultural Mapping and the Making of Heritage
• Re(Con)figuring the Nenek Kebayan through Folktale Adaptation: Malaysian Folktales as Literary and Cultural Heritage
• PART III: THE SMALL TOWN, NOSTALGIA, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
• The Small Town as Heritage in the Writings of Rehman Rashid and Shih-Li Kow
• "The unmovable self situated in the quicksand of memory": Nostalgia and Intangible Natural Heritage in the Weather Poems of Shirley Geok-lin Lim
• PART IV: IMAGINED AND COSMOPOLITAN HERITAGE
• Imagined Heritage: Ee Tiang Hongs "Eternal" Melaka
• "Add Place and Stir": Ownership, Authenticity, and the "Malaysian" Kari Kapitan
• "Boria Everywhere in the World": A Penang Burlesque and the Politics of Heritage.