Unsettling Absences
Urbanism in Rural Malaysia
Distributed for National University of Singapore Press
Unsettling Absences
Urbanism in Rural Malaysia
288 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2006
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: Southeast Asia and Australia
Sociology: General Sociology
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Individuals
Note on Currency
1. Introduction
Part I: Kuala Lumpur and Kampung
2. Kuala Lumpur
3. Kampung
Part II: Practical Urbanism
4. Circulation and Migration
5. Production and Labor
6. Social Interaction
Part III: Mediated Urbanism
7. Schooling
8. Television
9. Migrant Narratives
10. Desire and Identity in KL-and-Kampung
Notes
Glossary of Malay Terms and Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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