Ch. 1. Introduction / A. Gomes -- ch. 2. Subalternity and the construction of Malay identity / J. Kahn -- ch. 3. Desire and conquest: the politics of erotism and repression in the construction of Chinese identity / A. McLaren -- ch. 4. Gender and modernity in Malaysia / M. Stivens -- ch. 5. Modernity, identity and constructions of Malay womanhood / L. Healey -- ch. 6. Modernist anthropology's comparative project: the construction of Indian identity as tradition / K. Ram -- ch. 7. Development and tradition in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese State and minority Tamils / R. Bastin -- ch. 8. Modernity and Semai ethnogenesis / A. Gomes -- ch. 9. Building identity and the modernisation of language: minority language policy in Thailand and China / D. Bradley -- ch. 10. Modern Japan and social identity: minority youth in school to work transition / K. Okano -- ch. 11. The politics of identity: Malay squatters in industrialising Malaysia / P. Guinness -- ch. 12. The construction of subordination in India: the untouchables and the OBC / O. Mendelsohn
Notes
"... an outcome of a one-day conference on "Modernity and minorities in Asia ..." -- Acknowledgements
