Making Heritage in Malaysia Sites, Histories, Identities
This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making. Starting with alternative ways of “museumising” heritage, the
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Making Heritage in Malaysia
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel Editor
Making Heritage in Malaysia Sites, Histories, Identities
Editor Sharmani Patricia Gabriel Universiti Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Foreword
Heritage Action in Transforming Malaysia This is an ambitious, subversive book. Apart from tackling the post-1971 “narrative of Malay hegemony”, it also joins the project of dismantling the great three-bloc race architecture which has long defined Malaysian society. The book certainly foregrounds “heritage as a more inclusive and expansive inventory of the nation’s cultural meanings” (47)—as the editor, Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, claims. But one question that the book also raises is—how might heritage work help eventually to unite Malaysian society around some new social paradigm?
Making Heritage Apart from its Malaysian concerns, the book tells us much about heritage itself—about “making heritage”. It points to the many and varied places in which we can address heritage concerns—ranging from street theatre, to poetry, to small-village memories and, of course, to museums of numerous types. The editor immediately rejects the idea that heritage is “a consensual, already-fixed and received narrative” (3) and stresses the “agential activity of making her
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