Milner Anthony. The Malays

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. 307 p.
ISBN: 978-0-631-17222-2.‘The Malays’: the phrase throws up many images. One might recall Joseph Conrad’s mysterious, dangerous pirates; the best-mannered gentlemen of the East; the ‘lazy natives’ of the colonial economies; the ‘New Malay’
entrepreneurs of modern, triumphant Malaysia; the skilful region-builders of ASEAN; the supporters of a multitude of monarchies and royal courts unimaginable in Europe or elsewhere in the Asian region; a people divided over the proper role of Islam; a Southeast Asian front in the struggle against terrorism. There is something mercurial about the signifi er ‘Malay’. Thinking about these images, we can rightly wonder – just who are these people? What is the essence of ‘Malayness’? - See more at: http://www.uz-translations.su/?category=austronesian-austrobooks&altname=the_malays#sthash.Zmahm0W3.dpuf