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BOOK REVIEW
18 Mei 2009  | Literary tradition forms generally more fundamental component of certain culture, especially Malay culture. Oral literature takes bigger proportion in the Malay literature tradition following written literature. Being famous with its subtle structure and word diction, Malay oral literature is commonly expressed through pantun, syair (poetry), gurin... detail... » |
17 Mei 2009  | As in other cultures, Malay architecture art features unique and discrete buildings associated with their essential functions, physical types, varied ornaments, and symbolical meanings encompassed within every fragment of buildings. Those features are reflected in meaningful emblems of the Malay buildings.
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16 Mei 2009  | Music as an inseparable element of living culture is the best medium to express and deliver the existing socio-cultural values and principles that underpin culture itself generally. Even more, a kind of music persisting in a society plays role to determine both collective and individual values to be discerned and admitted by the society where the m... detail... » |
23 Maret 2009  | Reading the history of a civilization, we often get the description on the glory as well as the ruin of the civilization in the past. Rarely do we find the information on the civilization‘s geographic location, its influential figures, and its social living. We find the mere information on the time and space that mostly intermingled with the myths ... detail... » |
23 Maret 2009  | Claude G. Bowers (1878-1958), an American historian and Ambassador to Spain and Chile, once said, “History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting the history to make it to conform to our comfort and convenience.” Indeed, his remarks are quit... detail... » |
22 Oktober 2008  | In almost all Malay literary works – either poets or prose – social themes as well as set of values taking the forms of norm of lives, ethics, mundane philosophies, and traditions are ordinarily used as subjects of discussion. In the other words, the Malay literatures often speak on topics like people’s attitude in society and cultural subjec... detail... » |
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