The Performance of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Performance in Malay Singapore

From the 1960s the Malays of Singapore were mandated to relocate from kampung (village) locations to “modern” concrete housing blocks. Their former villages, consisting of wooden houses built on stilts, were razed for concrete social housing, accompanied by a policy enforcing a rigorous ethnic quota...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D. S. Farrer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université de Provence 2012-11-01
Series:Moussons
Subjects:
art
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/1573