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:

• 1. Postcolonialising heritage and the idea of "Malaysia" / Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
• 2. Negotiating museum narratives, the Sarawak Museum, the brooke state, and the construction of cultural heritage, 1886-1963 / Jennifer R. Morris
• 3. The Serdang Folk Museum and the performance of heritage, community museums as an alternative to national heritage / Sunitha Janamohanan
• 4. Dual triumphalist heritage narrative and the Sungai Buloh Leprosy settlement / Heong-Hong Por
• 5. Cultural mapping and the making of heritage / Susan Philip
• 6. Re(Con)figuring the Nenek Kebayan through folktale adaptation. Malaysian folktales as literary and cultural heritage / Sharifah Aishah Osman
• 7. The small town as heritage in the writings of Rehman Rashid and Shih-Li Kow / Carol Leon
• 8. "The unmovable self situated in the quicksand of memory", nostalgia and intangible natural heritage in theweather poems of Shirley Geok-lin Lim / Agnes S.K. Yeow
• 9. Imagined heritage, Ee Tiang Hongs "Eternal" Melaka / Siew-Teip Looi
• 10. "Add place and stir", ownership, authenticity, and the "Malaysian" Kari Kapitan / Leonard Jeyam
• 11. "Boria everywhere in the world", a Penang burlesque and the politics of heritage / Simon Soon.