Indonesia: Haunting Malayness: The Multicultural Uncanny In A New Indonesian Province

Indonesia: Haunting Malayness: The Multicultural Uncanny In A New Indonesian Province Nicholas J. Long, 2010 This article investigates how useful notions of ‘Malay spirit beliefs’ and ‘the uncanny’ are for analysing encounters with mysterious non-human creatures, known as makhluk gaib, in Indonesia's Riau Archipelago. It suggests that the multiplicity of cosmologies within a plural society necessarily frustrates efforts to analyse such encounters within the framework of specific cultural...

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