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Between Frontiers: Nation And Identity In A Southeast Asian Borderland
by Ishikawa, Noboru
About This Book
Substantial fieldwork and archival research underpin this prize-winning study of social/national identity and interplay in Cape Dato, a borderland of Sarawak, East Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Part 1 explores the historical dynamics of the borderland and its economy which included smuggling of rubber into Sarawak and cross-border population movement. Part 2 focuses on ethnic factors in a border village where tensions of Konfrontasi, Merdeka and cross-border economic disparities have had been major factors in development and recent history. With sketch maps, bibliography, black-and-white photographs and index.
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