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Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia.

Gingging, Flory Mansor.

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Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia./
Author:	Gingging, Flory Mansor.
Description:	233 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-03A(E).
Subject:	Folklore. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3601798
ISBN:	9781303535154

Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia.
Gingging, Flory Mansor.

Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia. - 233 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2013.

This dissertation focuses on how indigenous people in Sabah, Malaysia--in particular, the Kadazandusun--navigate contemporary life. Specifically, it explores the ways in which Kadazandusun employ aspects of their historical cultures within the context of the annual Harvest Festival and tourism to respond to the Malaysian state's nation-building projects. Kadazandusun have oftentimes countered "Malaysian nationalism" with "Kadazan nationalism," a movement whose articulation has included the Unduk Ngadau Kaamatan competition, a native beauty contest held during the annual Harvest Festival. Arguing that native pageants and festivals are useful windows for understanding how communities reproduce, construct, and contest local and national identities; and that they are articulations of how Kadazandusun respond to modernity and its centralizing forces, this ethnography examines how the competition performs "work"--i.e., how it enables a woman to become a symbol for her community and ultimately, the Kadazandusun nation. This study also proposes that the tongue-in-cheek invocation of headhunting in tourism represents one way that Sabah's indigenous groups counter external threats to their identities--the outside world's designation of them as the Other, as well as the Malaysian state's attempt to interpolate them into a Malaysian identity. This dissertation also examines homestay tourism and the ways in which minority native groups are often portrayed as "guardians of tradition" and as embodiments of "authenticity." Although homestay communities appear to endorse a conception of tradition that sees it as static rather than dynamic, a closer inspection reveals that in "touristifying" themselves to accommodate guests' expectations of the "real Malaysia," they are actually participating in "traditionalization," an empowering process in which they are agents who creatively deploy aspects of their cultures and histories. This dissertation concludes with an overview of notions of belonging in an ethnically-diverse Malaysia as the broader context for how Kadazandusun and their counterparts construct their identities.

ISBN: 9781303535154Subjects--Topical Terms:

528224
Folklore.

Being Kadazandusun in Sabah, Malaysia.
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