By Sim Chee Cheang ABSTRACT Edward Said‘s Orientalism (1978) suggested that Orientalist discourse was a devious effort of the West to lure the colonized and the colonizer into an imaginary existence that would help ensure its domination of the East. Through the work of Homi K. Bhabha, this discourse was broadened to ...
By Mark Mudge Fasting - A Theoretical Overview O ye who believe!Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self restraint – Qur‘an S2: 183 Fasting as a spiritual discipline is an ancient practice. It ...
By Margaret J. Kartomi The drum ensemble and solo music of the Mandailing people in the south-west corner - South Tapanuli area - of North Sumatra. As in the neighbouring Angkola area, the music belongs to a tradition which developed in the centuries before the Muslim religion and Dutch colonial power entered the area. Muslim ...
Traditionally, wedding ceremony of Ternate is closely braid between two clans (called; Soa) or between one family with another. By joining these two clans or family closely through married, every one in these two families has the same responsibilities to support the survival of these clans in the community, as well as the tradition of ...
Ramadan mubarak! (a blessed Ramadan!) Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and the most sacred of the twelve months. The name Ramadan derives from the Arabic word for intense heat and sun-scorched ground. A number of reasons have been advanced to explain the linguistic connection: It refers to the hot, dry ...
Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Melayu [1] , is the national language of Malaysia. Bahasa means ‘language‘, so essentially Bahasa Malaysia means ‘the language of Malaysia‘. In this Entry, it will be shortened to BM for convenience [2] . It originated from the group of languages called Austronesian which is further broken up into Malayo-Polynesian, ...
Although Micronesia was at least partially accessed from the Philippines or perhaps the Sangir-Talaud and North Sulawesi region, it seems safe to assume that the main stream of Austronesian migration into Oceania passed through East Indonesia, particularly Maluku. This must be particularly true for the Austronesians of Melanesia, so that one ...
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