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The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia
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The Water World of the Orang Suku Laut in Southeast Asia

Cynthia Chou
Trans-regional and -national studies of Southeast Asia, Vol.4(2), pp.265-282
07/2016
DOI: 10.1017/trn.2016.9
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https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2016.9View
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Abstract

This article explores how the Orang Suku Laut, an indigenous Malay roving fishing community, perceives the water world in Southeast Asia. Their rites of childbirth, naming and the enculturation of their young present invaluable ethnographic data that challenge us to develop new ways to conceptualise ‘water spaces’ as well as to widen our academic inquiry into the less understood ways of spatial imaginings.
Articles Water in Southeast Asia

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