Ethnic Relations in Kelantan: Capital, the State, and Uneven Economic Development in Malaya

by Robert L. Winzeler

Based on years of field work, this book examines the way in which non-Malay ethnic groups of the Kelantan Plain, particularly the Chinese and Thai minorities, have adapted culturally to their environment and analyzes their relationship to the larger Malay state. Focusing on a region in which the non-Malay groups are true minorities, Winzeler demonstrates that the non-Malay groups of villagers share many of the same cultural patterns-and problems-as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195826183
• ISBN13: 9780195826180
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 180 Pages