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The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore

The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore ASIAN ETHNICITY BOOK REVIEW The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore, by Humairah Zainal and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Routledge, December 15, 2021, 288 pp., $160 hardcover Anthony Milner’s chapter on Thinking about the Malays and “Malayness’ alludes to the possibly orientalist-inspired quest to reify the elusiveness of ‘Malayness”, to which Humairah and Kamaludeen respond with the dynamic analysis of the interaction between the masses and the elites in constructing Malay national identity (Anthony Milner, Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’. In A. Milner, The Malays: Wiley Online Library, 2008, pp. 1–17) Their book echoes Timothy Barnard’s book on Contesting Malayness, which lays out different interpretations of what constitutes ‘Malayness’ (Timothy P. Barnard, Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, pp. ix–x). Humairah and Kamaludeen’s concept of primordial modernity is also a continuation of Leonard Y. Andaya’s Leaves of the Same Tree, which amalgamates the primordialist and essentialist standpoints to ethnicity with a constructivist perspective (Leonard Y. Andaya, Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2008, pp. 1 − 17). Closer to Humairah’s and Kamaludeen’s Singapore would be Singaporeans http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Ethnicity Taylor & Francis

The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore

Bin Ridzuan, Faris
Asian Ethnicity , Volume 24 (3): 3 – Jul 3, 2023
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© 2022 Faris Bin Ridzuan
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1469-2953
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10.1080/14631369.2022.2132469
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ASIAN ETHNICITY BOOK REVIEW The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore, by Humairah Zainal and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Routledge, December 15, 2021, 288 pp., $160 hardcover Anthony Milner’s chapter on Thinking about the Malays and “Malayness’ alludes to the possibly orientalist-inspired quest to reify the elusiveness of ‘Malayness”, to which Humairah and Kamaludeen respond with the dynamic analysis of the interaction between the masses and the elites in constructing Malay national identity (Anthony Milner, Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’. In A. Milner, The Malays: Wiley Online Library, 2008, pp. 1–17) Their book echoes Timothy Barnard’s book on Contesting Malayness, which lays out different interpretations of what constitutes ‘Malayness’ (Timothy P. Barnard, Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, pp. ix–x). Humairah and Kamaludeen’s concept of primordial modernity is also a continuation of Leonard Y. Andaya’s Leaves of the Same Tree, which amalgamates the primordialist and essentialist standpoints to ethnicity with a constructivist perspective (Leonard Y. Andaya, Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2008, pp. 1 − 17). Closer to Humairah’s and Kamaludeen’s Singapore would be Singaporeans

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