Cultural Contestations: Mediating Identities in a Changing Malaysian Society by Zawawi Ibrahim, ed., London: ASEAN Academic Press 1998. 204pp. index.

Abstract

The essays in this volume first appeared in the Tonan Ajia Kenkyu journal of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto. It is fitting that Zawawi Ibrahim of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) has now made them available to Malaysianists in book form. The five essays in the book address an enduring theme in the social sciences in what has now become the newly recognised field of cultural studies. It is indeed welcome that editor Zawawi, a social anthropologist, has taken up the cudgels for cultural studies in Malaysia.