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Title
Doing lifework in Malaysia / Souchou Yao.
Author
Yao, Souchou, author.
ISBN
9789811920875 (electronic bk.)
9811920877 (electronic bk.)
9789811920868
9811920869
9811920877 (electronic bk.)
9789811920868
9811920869
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-19-2087-5 doi
Call Number
HN700.6.A8
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.09595
Summary
Malaysia is a prosperous, developing nation in Southeast Asia. Its citizens face the problems that beset people's lives all over the world. These problems are about the family and economic security, as well as the existential choices we customarily associate with the residents of developed societies. Through the anthropologist's art of ethnography and cultural analysis, the book shows the way ordinary Malaysians manage the contingencies, the chanciness in their daily existence. In a mildly postcolonial gesture, Doing Lifework in Malaysia transports the work of Heidegger, Arendt, Camus, Sartre--masters of European existentialism--to a recognizably 'Third World' situation. The result is a series of penetrating and illuminating essays that cover a broad range of social actors, among them a Tamil domestic servant, the film maker Jasmin Ahmed, a Malay corporate wheeler-and-dealer turned ecologist, a group of Chinese traders in the Sarawak interior and a female ex-communist insurgent. As such, this fascinating study examines the Malaysian social life afresh, and in the process brings into focus issues not normally covered in other accounts: Hindu worship as a defiance against tradition, gift exchange and globalization, race envy and psychoanalysis, petite capitalism and solitude.
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Table of Contents
Part I. You, Me, and Others
Chapter 1. I Am My World: On Writing Ethnography
Chapter 2. Doing Lunch with Jasmin Ahmad
Chapter 3. A Lowborn Life
Chapter 4. The Education of J. Kuna Rajah Naidu
Chapter 5. Appetite
Chapter 6. The Perils of Ethnic Crossover
Part II. Under the Sign of China
Chapter 7. Hotel Belaga
Chapter 8. Home and Solitude
Chapter 9. The Repressed Must Return
Chapter 10. Scar of Memory.
Chapter 1. I Am My World: On Writing Ethnography
Chapter 2. Doing Lunch with Jasmin Ahmad
Chapter 3. A Lowborn Life
Chapter 4. The Education of J. Kuna Rajah Naidu
Chapter 5. Appetite
Chapter 6. The Perils of Ethnic Crossover
Part II. Under the Sign of China
Chapter 7. Hotel Belaga
Chapter 8. Home and Solitude
Chapter 9. The Repressed Must Return
Chapter 10. Scar of Memory.