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 | | Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship Among the Malays (St. Antony's Series) by Patricia Sloane ISBN-10: 9780312213008 ISBN-10: 0-312-21300-X ISBN-13: 9780312213008 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-21300-8 Hardcover 1999-01 Palgrave Macmillan Find Lowest Price |
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Imagination is Thrilling Not since Eliot set upon the drizzly Dank has an Americanevidenced such bold, imaginative writing. I accidently happened uponProfessor Sloane- White's ethnography while designing what is perhaps the first psychology curriculum to emphasize a cultural and international perspective for the national university of a developing country. Sloane- White's account of a segment of Malay society added to our perspective in considerable measure through its imaginative,lucid conceptualization of a people seeking to define themselves in their emergence from a colonial past. We have appreciated far better after our reading of this remarkable volume how psychological personal identity must be coupled or integrated with a conceived social/ cultural dimension - here represented as nationhood...this revealing work, one as melodic in its prose as an Eric Clapton piece is in its musical lines.END | ||
Imagination is Thrilling Not since Eliot set upon the drizzly Dank has an American evidenced such bold, imaginative writing. I accidently happened upon Professor Sloane- White's ethnography while designing what is perhaps the first psychology curriculum to emphasize a cultural and international perspective for the national university of a developing country. Sloane- White's account of a segment of Malay society added to our perspective in considerable measure through its imaginative,lucid conceptualization of a people seeking to define themselves in their emergence from a colonial past. We have appreciated far better after our reading of this remarkable volume how psychological personal identity must be coupled or integrated with a conceived social/ cultural dimension - here represented as nationhood. Do hurry in re-stocking this revealing work, one as melodic in its prose as an Eric Clapton piece is in its musical lines. We hope to tempt the Professor to an invited lecture to help launch our new psychology major in the upcoming academic year, and look forward to more from pen. | ||
More narrative than analysis, an ethnography of the rich! Essentially, an ethnographic account of the Malay rich, the first of its kind in English, but there exists a number of similar ethnographies in Malay not mentioned or referred top. The book is strong on the narrative but so-so on the analysis, and offers no real new secondary data. Should be read along with Scott's "Political Ideology in Malaysia" (1974), a semi-ethnographic study of Malay top bureaucrats. | ||
Capitalism in KL Good news from the frontiers of international capitalism: the magic of the market, mit entrepreneurial hustle reveal urban Malays' hots for profits, for the scramble for them--and the efforts made to square this lust for entrepreneurial life with old customs and beliefs. I enjoyed the fascinating portrayals of successful Malays seeking to sanctify the pursuit of success with conventional moralism. It is illuminating to compare the most rapacious American nineteenth century robber barons' invocations: an ethic of hard work and providential rewards, with modern Malay mild businessmen's explanations of their wealty state among others, rich and poor. This book shows a superb effort in this regard. Those robber barons conflated selfish ambitions with civic virtue, and merged private gain with public good. A was a most worthwhile read: Sloan's compelling comparisons of competing styles of capitalism, often shown through the lives of Malay entrepreneurs. It is a book, this, that imparts excitingly, the ironies and conflicts, the contradictions, among the styles of global capitalisms extant. See how some entreprenuers present themselves as noble or heroic. This is a masterful synthesis of original research and writing, in a tone perfect to the historical moment. This is a time, after all, when CEOs posture as culture heroes, multinationals equate entrepreneurship with creativity, and the marketplace enjoys the status that God enjoyed in medieval thelogy. I won't spoil it--read this book--to see how the Malays do it! Jolly good piece of vibrant field work and writing with imagination! | ||
An ethographic study of Malay entreprenurial culturei in pos Malay Muslim enterprise is cleverly revealed; their pentient for "entrepreneurship" is exciting and is taken in like firewater or an elixir. Affirmative action surely worked its magic for many malays, and acted as black magic against other ethnics. The price through history may be presented as as an aggravated ethnically polarized country, not yet a nation, in the sense of a pressing awareness of the needs and aspirations of all ethnic groups in Malaysia. Dr. Sloane brilliantly unravels the mystery of development of the Malays via a government program of affirmative action.Other Malaysians haven't been beneficiaries of economic policy: they mainly get it in the neck, affirmatively and laconically. Deeply contextualized descriptions of social class, gender, domestic life and the Malay facility for networking help to show the dramatic effect of a dominant Malay Muslim government policy on economic development- to be understood, without ambiguity, as quotas, big time. This book appears to be the first in depth research of urban, affluent Malay culture in the process of radical transformation into modernity/ postmodernity- quite a ride for those experiencing the consequences of this state-led, hyper pro-Malay capitalist moderne intensification-- wedded, in part, to Islamic resurgence. One of my favorite chapters involves the business of alliances in elucidating the social relations among the young lions of entrepreneurship; relatedly, I was fascinated by what Sloane conceives of as the social limits of an entrepreneurial identity. One wishes all ethnographic studies were so brilliantly conceived and executed, clearly and briiliantly written, quite touching, really. | ||