A Share of the Harvest
A Share of the Harvest

Author: Michael G. Peletz

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780520080867

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The inhabitants of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan have long been of interest to outside observers. They are Muslims yet they have matrilineal clans, and both houses and land tend to be owned and inherited by women. In the face of British rule, modern market forces, and Islamic nationalism, the Malays of the Rembau district of Negeri Sembilan have succeeded in retaining many features of their matrilineality. Michael Peletz examines persistence and change in the social organization of these Malays in the period 1830 to 1980.

Of Merchants and Missions
Of Merchants and Missions

Author: Andrew Peh

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1532634374

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It has often been held that missions rode on the coattails of colonialism. In the case of the British administered island of Singapore, the pluriform missions of the Methodist missionaries demonstrated industry, innovation, and integrity, which in many ways question the charge of compromise and complicity between missions and colonialism. This historical survey presents the case that the Methodist missionaries collaborated with the colonial administration insofar where benefits might be gleaned from cooperation but were intuitively commandeered by a different commander-in-chief and whose primary motivation of love for the Lord, for the people, and for the land were objectively evident.

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

Author: Allen Kent

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1976-04-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780824720179

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"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."

Bodies and Voices
Bodies and Voices

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 9401205353

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A wide-ranging collection of essays centred on readings of the body in contemporary literary and socio-anthropological discourse, from slavery and rape to female genital mutilation, from clothing, ocular pornography, voice, deformation and transmutation to the imprisoned, dismembered, remembered, abducted or ghostly body, in Africa, Australasia and the Pacific, Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain and Eire