Malay-muslim spirits and Malaysian capitalist modernity: a study of keramat propitiation among property developers in Penang
Property developers in Penang (Malaysia) were erecting shrines and performing rituals to propitiate a Malay-Muslim guardian spirit of local sacred places known interchangeably as keramat or Datuk Kong during a period of euphoric economic growth in Malaysia in the early 1990s. Drawing on anthropologi...
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Wiley-Blackwell
2005
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Asia Pacific viewpoint
Year: 2005, Volume: 46, Issue: 3, Pages: 307-322 |
| Further subjects: | B
Socioeconomic change
B Ethnicity B Housing construction B Islam B Malaysia Religion Ritual Construction industry Housing construction Economic growth Sozioökonomische Entwicklung Islam Ethnicity Chinese people Malays Traditionelle Kultur B Economic growth B China B Religion B Malaysia B Traditional culture B Malays B Construction industry |