1997/03/01 by Anthony Reid · 34 citations
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Socioeconomic Development in Asia #Indigenous #Identity (music) #Politics #Endangered species #Ethnology #Geography #History #Genealogy #Anthropology #Sociology #Political science #Demography #Law #Aesthetics #Ecology
paper · doi:10.1017/s0022463400015204
published in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 28(1), 120-136 (Cambridge University Press)
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The dominant indigenous community of Sabah, East Malaysia, came late to the process of imagining itself as a modern political community. Its difficulties in identifying an acceptable name, boundaries and symbols for itself since entering Malaysia in 1963 provide an interesting case study of identity formation without the benefit of a long written tradition.