Minority cultures of Peninsular Malaysia : survivals of indigenous heritage / Survivals of indigenous heritage. editors : Razha Rashid & Wazir Jahan Karim. - xii, 194 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 31 cm. - Readers series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constructing emotions and world of the Orang Asli / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Genetic studies on the Orang Asli / Adela Baer -- Material culture as technological transformation / Wazir Jahan Karim and Razha Rashid -- Development, modernity, and the Orang Asli / Razha Rashid -- Minorities of the minority, language death and patterns of cultural extinction / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Linguistic aspects of the Semang / Niclas Burenhult -- Sociolinguistic aspects of northern Aslian languages / Nancy McAllistar Bishop -- Orang Asli languages / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Process and structure in Temiar social organisation / Geoffrey Benjamin -- Cultural resilience in encountering'development' / Signe Howell -- Environmental economics and the Ma' Betise' in mangrove rainforests / Wazir Jahan Karim -- Semai-Malay ethnobotany / Robert Knox Dentan.

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Ethnology--Malaysia--Malaya.
Indigenous peoples--Malaysia--Malaya.
Minorities--Malaysia--Malaya.