Reconstructing Identities: A Social History of the Babas in Singapore

by Jürgen Rudolph

The aim of this text is to provide a social history of the Babas in Singapore. It describes and analyzes social, political and cultural aspects of their identities by taking into account the conceptual history of Baba designations from 1819-1994. It argues that defining the Babas is misleading, it is more meaningful to adopt a socio-historical approach that differentiates spaciotemporally-distinct Baba identities. Such an approach is usually avoided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840143576
• ISBN13: 9781840143577
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
• Length: 532 Pages