Titlebook: Making Heritage in Malaysia; Sites, Histories, Id Sharmani Patricia Gabriel Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), unde

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Postcolonialising Heritage and the Idea of “Malaysia”nising its social, economic, political and ideological value, as well as its role in nation-making, this chapter subjects “heritage”—as concept, lived experience and discourse—to careful examination. It argues that although state discourses endorse fixed representations of heritage, the latter is al

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Negotiating Museum Narratives: The Sarawak Museum, the Brooke State and the Construction of Cultural1886. While the individuals involved with the Sarawak Museum were influenced by colonial worldviews, the institution was also moulded by the unique structure of the Brooke state. This chapter examines the history of museum-making in Sarawak and its impact on the role of the state Museum into the col

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Cultural Mapping and the Making of Heritageeen fixed into a specific narrative focusing strongly on the immigrant past of certain segments of the Malaysian populace, without also acknowledging their “presentness” within Malaysian society. Cultural mapping is one way of situating the past within the present, linking both to lived experience w

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The Small Town as Heritage in the Writings of Rehman Rashid and Shih-Li Kowl heritage of a country, specifically its “placeness,” is viewed as a marker of its identity. In the context of heritage-making in Malaysia, certain “places” have been imbued with a historical significance that insists on the supremacy of certain groups over others, resulting in the loss of the idea

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“The Unmovable Self Situated in the Quicksand of Memory”: Nostalgia and Intangible Natural Heritage nostalgia as a way of coming to terms with the impossibility of a return to the past. This chapter explores selected poems by Shirley Geok-lin Lim that foreground the ambivalence of this desire for “home” and the writer’s own critical relationship with nostalgia. It argues that to consider intangibl

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Imagined Heritage: Ee Tiang Hong’s “Eternal” Melakaal Culture Policy in 1971. This chapter argues that in his depictions of Melaka, poet Ee Tiang Hong engaged in heritage-making and that his vision of a multicultural Melaka is an “imagined heritage” that counters the official narrative of a hegemonic Malay national culture and heritage. It also argu

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Add Place and Stir: Origins, Authenticity and the “Malaysian” Kari Kapitanan colonial context in that its assumed origins are believed to lie within the region’s long-established . (or Straits Chinese) communities, whose culinary practices are a confluence of Chinese and Malay traditions. In exploring the claims made by the Peranakan to the ownership of the Kari Kapitan,