Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. On Being Tribal in the Malay World 7
7. 3. Tribal People on the Southern Thai Border: Internal Colonialism, Minorities, and the State 77
8. 4. Developing Indigenous Communities into Sakais: South Thailand and Riau 97
9. 5. Organizing Orang Asli Identity 119
10. 6. Traditional Alliances: Contact between the Semais and the Malay State in Pre-modern Perak 137
11. 7. Forest People, Conservation Boundaries, and the Problem of “Modernity” in Malaysia 160
12. 8. Engaging the Spirits of Modernity: The Temiars 185
13. 9. Against the Kingdom of the Beast: Semai Theology, Pre-Aryan Religion, and the Dynamics of Abjection 206
14. 10. Culture Contact and Semai Cultural Identity 237
15. 11. “We People Belong in the Forest”: Chewong Re-creations of Uniqueness and Separateness 254
16. 12. Singapore’s Orang Seletar, Orang Kallang, and Orang Selat: The Last Settlements 273
17. 13. Orang Suku Laut Identity: The Construction of Ethnic Realities 293 Lioba Lenhart 14 Tribality and Globalization: The Orang Suku 293
18. 14. Tribality and Globalization: The Orang Suku Laut and the “Growth Triangle” in a Contested Environment 318
19. 15. The Orang Petalangan of Riau and their Forest Environment 364
20. 16. Inter-group Relations in North Sumatra 384
21. 17. State Policy, Peasantization and Ethnicity: Changes in the Karo Area of Langkat in Colonial Times 401
22. 18. Visions of the Wilderness on Siberut in a Comparative Southeast Asian Perpective 422 422
23. 19. Defining Wildness and Wilderness: Minangkabau Images and Actions on Siberut (West Sumatra) 439
24. 20. Gender and Ethnic Identity among the Lahanans of Sarawak 457
25. INDEX 475